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Federico Ruiz Guiñazú

Leads our payments work in Leap by McKinsey across Spanish Latin America and is the location manager for our Argentina office

Federico is a partner in McKinsey’s Buenos Aires office and leads Leap by McKinsey in Latin America.

Some of his recent client work includes the following:

  • designing digital payments and loyalty solutions for a dominant retailer
  • designing a digital ecosystem for a leading bank in the region
  • building two digital payments solutions in Latin America
  • designing and building a digital payments coalition in Latin America, involving more than 35 banks
  • designing strategy and blueprint and building a digital attacker bank in Colombia
  • building a digital-payments organization from day one, defining strategy, technology, organization, product, and go to market; helped recruit an organization and launch the product to market
  • redesigning the payments strategy for a South American bank facing disruption
  • transforming a large payments company in Argentina, building digital marketing, digitization, and advanced analytics capabilities

Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA

University of Buenos Aires
Lic, economics