Lenny Mendonca is a director in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company, Inc., the world's leading global management consulting firm, where he leads the firm's knowledge development.Lenny is on the Shareholders' Council of McKinsey (its board of directors), oversees the firm's communications (including The McKinsey Quarterly), and is chair of the McKinsey Global Institute. He has helped dozens of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients solve their most difficult management challenges.
Lenny is the chair of the Bay Area Council and is on the board of directors of the Economic Institute of the Bay Area and the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium. He is on the board of the New America Foundation and Common Cause, a trustee for the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the advisory council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of ChildrenNow, DonorsChoose, and the California Business for Educational Excellence Foundation, and he is a member of the Alliance for the San Francisco Unified School District.
Lenny has led several McKinsey research efforts. He has written and spoken extensively on globalization, corporate social responsibility, economic development, regulation, education, energy policy, health care, financial services, and corporate strategy. He received his M.B.A. and certificate in public management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard College.
Lenny lives with his wife and two daughters on the Half Moon Bay coast, south of San Francisco, where he is the founder and owner of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company.
