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Humam Sakhnini

Palestinian American business executive (born 1968)

Humam Sakhnini (born September 1968) is a Palestinian-American management consultant, financial technology entrepreneur, and technology and video game industry executive, who has served as the chief executive officer of Discord since April 2025. He was previously a partner at McKinsey & Company, and held senior roles at Activision Blizzard and its subsidiary King Digital Entertainment, including president of King and, later, vice chairman at Activision Blizzard.2

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedYale School of Management Master of Business Administration3
  • Date not recordedQueen's University Master of Arts3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Western Ontario Bachelor of Arts3

Sakhnini was born in Damascus, Syria and spent a part of his teenage years in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in economics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada before receiving a Master of Arts (MA) in economics from Queen's University at Kingston in 1992. He earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, with a concentration in strategy and finance, from the Yale School of Management in 2001.

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Career

Occupation: business executive.7

Early career

Sakhnini initially worked for the investment bank Nesbitt Burns and for the Department of Finance Canada. He participated in the 28th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association in Calgary in June 1994, and authored three of Department of Finance's Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis Branch working papers in 1995. In one of these papers, written jointly with Steven James and Chris Matier, he argued in favor of pre-funded pension plans for the baby boomer generation as a source of investment and economic growth, siding with the World Bank in the debate over the future of the Canada Pension Plan.

He later founded and co-directed the financial technology firm ISGroup, which provided services to mutual funds and hedge funds.

In the 2000s, he spent eight years as a partner (or associate principal) at McKinsey & Company advising executives at media and technology companies on business strategy, including acquisitions, international growth and market entry, as well as marketing, sales, and organizational transformation.

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Personal life

  • BornDamascus8

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