Abbas Ali Khan

Abbas Khan is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Abacus Cambridge Partners (Abacus). Abbas has over 22 years of experience working in leadership roles at global professional services firms. Prior to joining Abacus, Abbas served more than 16 years as the Managing Director of Abacus Consulting — the member firm of Abacus Cambridge Partners. An accomplished business leader with extensive experience across a broad range of industries including Financial Services, Telecom, Public Sector, Consumer Markets, Industrial Goods, and SME sector, Abbas also serves as a leader in company-wide governance roles such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Industry specialization, Access to talent, and Corporate Information Systems. His distinctive leadership style combined with his strong focus on business growth drivers such as customer experience, operational excellence, and improved revenue models in the digital economy has been helping Abacus to emerge as the leading transformation company across EMEA. With an entrepreneurial style of management, Abbas believes that business transformation can be achieved through sustained investment in people and technology. He works tirelessly towards his belief to help the firm’s customers succeed. Having started his career at the London offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), he is a Fellow Chartered Accountant at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Prior to this, he completed his BA (Hons) in Mathematics and Computation at the University of Oxford. Abbas also chairs the YPO Indus Chapter.