Amit Mehta grew up in upstate New York and Houston and has split his adult life between the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. He earned a PhD in biophysics at Stanford University, where he published his research on molecular motors as lead author in Nature and Science, and went on to postdoctoral work in neuroscience at Bell Labs.

He then shifted into finance and was elected associate partner at McKinsey in 2011. In 2012, he joined Morgan Stanley, including through a secondment in the corporate treasury function, and was promoted to managing director in 2014. He went on to serve as a managing director in corporate treasury at Goldman Sachs before moving to JPMorgan Chase, where he has most recently led data and analytics for the International Consumer Bank. Along the way, he has mentored rising leaders in banking and consulting.

Amit has also served five years on the board of Kainomyx, an early-stage biotech company developing therapies for malaria; and three years as a board member and one year as board president at a non-profit community institution in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier, he volunteered with Seva Mandir in Rajasthan, India, and with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank, Palestine.

Amit lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their twin daughters. Beyond professional and community work, he once skated long distances, including from New York to Montauk, Albany, and Philadelphia. He is happiest just skating around the playground with his 8-year-old daughters.