Rita Kakati-Shah, Louise Herring and Luka Gebel have joined the King’s Business School Advisory Council to help shape the School’s future direction. Rita and Louise will bring their wealth of experience to bear on developing King’s Business School’s connectivity to practitioners, businesses and future partners, while Luka will represent the interests and ambitions of the emerging generation of new researchers.

Louise Herring is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s London Office where she supports consumer facing organisations with their digital and analytics transformations. Prior to joining McKinsey, Louise was a Consultant at PwC (Transaction Services), delivering commercial and market due diligence.

King’s Mathematics with Management BSc graduate Rita Kakati Shah is the Founder and CEO of Uma, a strategic diversity and inclusion coaching, consultancy and training platform. Rita’s work as a business leader, entrepreneur and pioneer in female empowerment, youth development and diversity and inclusion has been recognized by multiple international awards. Prior to founding Uma, Rita held roles on the Goldman Sachs equities trading floor and in the clinical trials and drug development industry.

Luka Gebel is a PhD candidate at King’s Business School. His research focuses on how businesses organise themselves for innovation in the context of the convergence of ‘deep tech’ and traditional science. Luka completed his MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School and has also worked at the Milner Therapeutics Institute at the University of Cambridge which facilitates university-industry collaborations.