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Shelley is a senior partner with McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice, serving clients across a range of sectors including private capital; advanced industries; and telecommunications, media, and technology. In addition to his client service, Shelley is Global Leader of Reputation & Engagement (R&E) and Chair of the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility, a think-and-do tank focused on catalyzing cross-sector action to build a more inclusive, dynamic economy.
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Alex is McKinsey's global leader of industry sectors, which spans the firm's work on banking and insurance, consumer, healthcare and public sector, advanced industries, private equity, technology, media and telecom, energy and materials, travel, infrastructure and logistics, and life sciences. The primary focus of Alex’s client work is on strategy, commercial, investment, M&A, and operational topics.
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Axel is McKinsey’s global leader of our functional practices, which includes strategy and corporate finance; growth, marketing and sales; risk and resilience; operations; sustainability; transformation; and people & organizational performance. Axel is also co-chair of the committee that elects McKinsey’s new senior partners. Axel focuses on bringing the best of McKinsey’s expertise, data, and solutions to clients, and shaping our future capabilities to meet our clients’ evolving needs.
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Eric is McKinsey & Company's Chair, North America, leading our firm across the United States and Canada. He is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Practice, which he led globally for five years. Eric has and always will remain a client-serving senior partner, with a strong record of partnering with executive teams across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors as well as the advanced industrial sector to set bold ambitions and build and execute on the roadmaps to achieve these lofty goals.
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Gassan is a senior partner, chair, and managing partner for the firm’s work in Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and Turkey (EEMA), and leads a team of over 180 partners and more than 2,400 colleagues across the region. He is passionate about supporting leaders on matters of economic growth and job creation for young people. In addition, Gassan has served some of the world’s leading companies in energy, technology, and consumer-facing industries to enhance growth and global competitiveness.
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Tracy Francis is a senior partner and the managing partner for Latin America, focusing on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth in the region and enhancing Latin America's global profile. Tracy has over two decades of business leadership experience across consumer, retail, and healthcare industries in the Americas. She helps leading companies take a holistic view of shifts in market dynamics to find new sources of growth, scale digital transformations, and accelerate performance.
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