CLEANSHEET - Key Persons
Aalia is a partner with McKinsey based out of Calgary, and is a leader in our Oil & Gas and Electric Power & Natural Gas Practices. She brings extensive experience to working with clients in oil and gas, mining, utilities, and power-generation companies.
Examples of Aalia's recent client work include the following:
leading the support for a major-capital project to reduce cost and schedule overruns
developing the strategy for an energy company to improve top-line revenue
driving rapid and dramatic performance and organizational health improvements to support a transformation of a global utility company
developing a talent strategy to identify the most critical roles in the organization and future talent needs
designing the future operating model of an energy client, accounting for future workforce needs
designing multiple capability building programs reaching over 500 employees
Aalia also serves several community boards, including the board of directors for YWCA Calgary, and was named a "top 40 under 40" in Calgary in 2019 by Avenue Magazine.
Advises energy companies on a range of topics, including capital excellence, operations, strategy, transformations, organizational design, capability building, and talent
Aalia is a partner with McKinsey based out of Calgary, and is a leader in our Oil & Gas and Electric Power & Natural Gas Practices. She brings extensive experience to working with clients in oil and gas, mining, utilities, and power-generation companies.
Job Titles:
- Global Leader of McKinsey 's Infrastructure Special Initiative
- Senior Partner Washington DC
Alastair is the global leader of McKinsey's Infrastructure Special Initiative and a senior leader of its Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice.
Alastair specializes in serving private equity and infrastructure investors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of topics spanning fund strategy, transactions, project development, and value-creation programs. In addition, he serves innovators and public institutions on investment and infrastructure topics, including how to effectively partner with private investors. Alastair's expertise spans several sectors, given the breadth of his clients, and has worked extensively in the energy, travel and logistics, real estate, industrials, and technology sectors. He is a thought leader who helps his clients navigate the complex infrastructure landscape in light of rapidly changing policies and technology.
Alejandro leads McKinsey's operations transformation work in Latin America. His extensive expertise includes strategic and at-scale transformations in service industries, including financial services, telecommunications, transport, and retail, and in industrial sectors, such as basic materials, energy, and consumer packaged goods.
Since joining the firm, Alejandro has led more than 60 transformation programs in multiple countries.
Examples of Alejandro's recent engagements include the following:
leading a lean, multiyear customer-experience transformation, including an employee-experience transformation that redesigned client journeys, branches, the contact center, and support functions, for a financial services client
supporting a financial services company's digital transformation by developing a digital strategy definition and implementation that included end-to-end process digitization, digital marketing, and advanced analytics
assisting a lean transformation in the transport sector through development of a company-wide program that trained employees in lean methods and significantly reduced rolling-material breakdowns and unavailability
helping a telecommunication company's operations transformation by designing a company-wide program that identified and implemented cost reduction initiatives
managing an operations transformation in the oil and gas industry by designing a new operating model to reduce operating expenses by 20 percent
developing an operations transformation for a pulp and paper company by implementing a new operating model and cost reduction initiatives across the organization
leading a multicountry organization's collections transformation, which delivered $40 million on credit losses reduction
Before joining McKinsey, Alejandro worked for a global telecommunications company in strategy and business intelligence functions.
Leads operations transformation work in Latin America, with extensive experience in the service and industrial sectors
Alejandro leads McKinsey's operations transformation work in Latin America. His extensive expertise includes strategic and at-scale transformations in service industries, including financial services, telecommunications, transport, and retail, and in industrial sectors, such as basic materials, energy, and consumer packaged goods.
Since joining the firm, Alejandro has led more than 60 transformation programs in multiple countries.
Alex is a senior partner with the firm's Chicago office and coleads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally. He helps companies transform by deploying digital and data and analytics solutions and ensuring these solutions go from pilot to full-scale adoption and scaling.
He passionately embeds change management and capability building as core elements to every transformation to ensure sustainable and step-change improvements in growth, effectiveness, cost, and customer experience.
In his more than 20 years with McKinsey, Alex has advised clients on several topics, including strategy, digital and analytics, enterprise transformation, service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, technology, risk assessment, warranty and claims, marketing, and cost.
Examples of Alex's recent client work include the following:
leading an effort to reimagine the homeowner insurance market, using analytics and digital to improve the customer experience, cycle time, and growth, and fully deploying all solutions to nearly 2,000 outbound customer-care agents
leading an analytics and operations transformation to improve product quality, warranty costs, customer experience, and market share for a Fortune-200 heavy industrial company, and deploying the solutions to approximately 500 customer-facing sales and service representatives who utilize the analytic insights daily
working with a leading life insurer on a holistic enterprise transformation that included developing a multiyear strategy, reimagining and digitizing the core customer end-to-end journeys through analytics, and instituting a growth-and-operations frontline transformation to double earnings within five years
leading a frontline sales and analytics transformation from pilot to a national launch with frontline capability building and performance management of more than 2000 field and inside-sales agents, resulting in increased sales and margins
Outside of work, Alex enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. He is a member of the board of trustees of Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and a member of the Council of Governors of the American India Foundation. Also, he is a guest mentor for innovative technology startups who are accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Global leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey; advises clients on strategy, digital and analytics, operations, enterprise transformation, and value creation across industries with a focus on financial services and insurance
Alex is a senior partner with the firm's Chicago office and coleads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally. He helps companies transform by deploying digital and data and analytics solutions and ensuring these solutions go from pilot to full-scale adoption and scaling.
He passionately embeds change management and capability building as core elements to every transformation to ensure sustainable and step-change improvements in growth, effectiveness, cost, and customer experience.
In his more than 20 years with McKinsey, Alex has advised clients on several topics, including strategy, digital and analytics, enterprise transformation, service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, technology, risk assessment, warranty and claims, marketing, and cost.
Helps financial-services and private-equity clients achieve superior performance by driving innovation with new technology
Alex is a senior leader in our Financial Services, Private Equity & Principal Investors, and McKinsey Digital Practices. In his 2 decades with McKinsey, he has served leading institutions around the world to improve their performance. Alex's work has covered a broad range of assignments on performance transformation, corporate turnarounds, organizational design, operational improvement, digital and technology enablement, sourcing, and corporate, business-unit, and growth strategy.
He now coleads our automation and artificial intelligence work globally, helping institutions drive innovation through new technologies. In that role he advises CEOs, CFOs, and COOs in all industries, and speaks frequently on these topics.
In addition to his client work, Alex founded our CFO-focused work in 2001 and continues to counsel CFOs on their enterprise and functional roles. He also cofounded our work on corporate and business functions. As part of our rotational-leadership culture, Alex has led various practices on strategy, operations, technology, organization, and sourcing.
Advises energy companies on a range of areas such as digital transformation, strategic planning, performance improvement, and investment management.
Alexander leads McKinsey's work in the Oil & Gas Practice, serving oil and gas companies on a wide range of issues, including strategic planning, organizational and operational transformation, and investment governance.
Alexander leads McKinsey's work in the Oil & Gas Practice, serving oil and gas companies on a wide range of issues, including strategic planning, organizational and operational transformation, and investment governance.
Examples of Alexander's recent client work include the following:
developing a program targeting smooth operational transformation, improved equipment reliability, product yields and optimized operational costs of a refinery network of the leading oil company
developing an operational transformation program for a large oil and gas company and creating an organizational model to promote continuous implementation of improvements
developing digital strategy for the leading oil company, in both upstream and downstream segments of the business
creating a sustainability strategy and asset modernization program for the leading downstream player
creating a portfolio strategy for an industrial group operating in more than ten different sectors
Alexander leads the Electrical Power and Natural Gas (EPNG) Practice globally, and spearheaded McKinsey's global contracting initiative. He has worked extensively in the EMEA's in power plant construction optimization and operational improvement.
Alexander is the global co-leader of McKinsey's Electric Power & Natural Gas practice. Beyond that he leads McKinsey's global contracting initiative. He has worked extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in power plant construction optimization and operational improvement.
Recent examples of Alexander's work include:
improving the capital productivity of multiple power plant new-build projects on different continents (Europe, U.S., Asia, Africa) and different technologies (coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, renewables)
optimizing the capital productivity of a utility's investment into its high-voltage transmission network
reviewing the contract management strategy of a major power plant new build project and introducing a counter claim strategy
improving the construction process in nuclear power plant decommissioning for a major European utility
developing a long-term fuel strategy for a global utility, including coal inventory, coal contracts and shipping logistics
developing a regulatory strategy for several European transmission grid operators (TSO)
creating strategies for European utilities considering all aspects of the market including regulation (feed-in tariffs, incentives, etc.)
Alexander regularly hosts round table discussions with senior business leaders, including a quarterly fireside chat with ambassadors accredited to Germany. Previously, Alexander worked for over 2 years in the patent office of a leading international high-tech company. He was also a partner at an IP consulting company.
Leads GEM Practice in India and drives end-to-end operations, growth and organization transformations across the Energy and Materials as well as government sectors
Amit is a senior partner who co-leads McKinsey's GEM in India. He brings extensive knowledge in the energy and materials sector, especially across the oil and gas and renewables, and has advised Indian and global companies, on multiple aspects of the business, most recently extensively on energy transition, sustainability and analytics. Amit is also a member of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) council, which advises on MGI research on global economic, business, and technology trends.
Amit has significant experience in driving end-to-end operations, growth and organization transformations, including with public sector enterprises. His recent work includes helping companies capture opportunities created by energy transition, end to end EBITDA transformation (including extensively using Advanced Analytics), helping companies drive market beating growth, and improving value of capital projects through cost and time savings.
Amit specializes in large-scale transformations and leads McKinsey's product-development and procurement work in India.
Since joining McKinsey, he has worked with global majors across Asia, including Australia, India, Japan, and South Korea. He has supported these organizations in various sectors-including automotive, metals and mining, basic materials, and infrastructure-on a range of issues, such as strategy development, growth transformation, operations transformation, capital productivity, and organization design.
André serves global companies across a wide range of industries-such as medical devices, high tech, advanced electronics, and machinery-with a focus on hardware and software product development excellence, operations, and digitization.
He started his career at McKinsey in 2012, when he joined the product development team in the firm's Operations Practice in Munich, following a career of more than ten years as an R&D engineer and manager in the high-tech industry. He has supported leading organizations across Europe with a special geographical focus in Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Sweden, and then spent several years in McKinsey's Tokyo office where he served Japanese companies in the medical-devices industry.
Examples of André's recent client work include the following:
running a holistic transformation of the product development organization, operating model, capabilities, and culture at a global medical-devices company
executing a lean R&D transformation at a leading high-tech company
designing and running a product quality excellence program at a medical-devices company
developing best-in-class portfolio and product management capabilities and operating models at multiple companies
transforming the operating and organizational model of the full procurement function at a global high-tech company
designing various digital strategies and transformation programs for machinery companies in different areas
André continues supporting global companies on the path to achieving the next level of growth and productivity by leveraging the breadth and depth of the expertise he has acquired along his career of more than 20 years.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant / Education
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