Practice leaders

Harald Deubener
Senior Partner, Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly PracticeStuttgart
Coleads McKinsey’s Automotive & Assembly Practice globally, supporting clients in the automotive and mobility, machinery, aerospace...

Philipp Kampshoff
Senior Partner and Global Coleader, Automotive & AssemblyHouston
Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly Practice, serving clients along the entire mobility value chain

Dominik Luczak
Senior PartnerTokyo
Supports automotive OEMs and suppliers on procurement, product development, product and portfolio strategy, and holistic performance...
Our people

Johan Bengtsson
PartnerStockholm
Helps companies in advanced industries manage the transformation toward a sustainable future through operations improvement in...

Kimberly Borden
Senior PartnerChicago
Serves clients in the Aerospace & Defense and Automotive & Assembly Practices, focusing on strategy, operations, and transformational...

Andreas Breiter
PartnerBay Area
Helps clients optimize capital expenditures and material costs while addressing the opportunities ahead as mobility becomes more...

Kevin Carmody
Senior Partner, Phoenix
Leads holistic, at-scale transformations and has deep experience in corporate finance, operational turnarounds, and change management...

Bikramjit Chaudhury
PartnerMumbai
Serves the Automotive & Assembly Practice with a special focus on large-scale cost and modularity transformations

Seunghyuk Choi
Senior PartnerSeoul
Advises advanced industries clients from the automotive and high-tech space on pursuing strategic-business transformations with...


Steffen Fuchs
Senior PartnerDallas
Global leader of McKinsey’s industrials work, helping clients scale impact with confidence through AI-driven growth, margin expansion,...

Mingyu Guan
Senior PartnerShenzhen
Drives performance and profitability for leading automakers, dealer groups, and mobility service providers

Nitesh Gupta
Senior PartnerGurugram
Advises leading automotive OEMs on digital, analytics, strategy, growth, product-planning and -development, margin-optimization,...

Shivanshu Gupta
Senior PartnerBengaluru
Leads McKinsey’s Advanced Industries in India, and is a leader in our global Operations and Advanced Industries Practices

Mikael Hanicke
Senior PartnerGothenburg
Advises clients on transformational change across functions, operations strategy and implementation, digital, and advanced analytics...

Michael Harney
PartnerNew York
Brings deep expertise in sales, marketing, and operational functions while partnering with industrial leaders to drive holistic...

Bernd Heid
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies and work in hydrogen globally; serves clients in the mobility and energy...

Kersten Heineke
PartnerFrankfurt
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients across the automotive industry, incumbent industries, mobility...


Dr. Ruth Heuss
Senior PartnerBerlin
Co-leads McKinsey’s Operations Practice globally, and serves companies in the automotive and machinery industries on future mobility,...

Asad Husain
PartnerToronto
Leverages expertise in strategy and operations to help clients execute programs that accelerate growth, boost profitability,...

Srikant Inampudi
Senior PartnerDetroit
Managing partner of our Detroit office; helps industrial, healthcare, and other complex enterprises pursue strategic transformation,...

Sören Jautelat
Senior PartnerStuttgart
Global leader of McKinsey’s (Gen)AI Accelerator. Leads large-scale transformation, shaping and scaling new digital businesses

Philipp Kampshoff
Senior Partner and Global Coleader, Automotive & AssemblyHouston
Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly Practice, serving clients along the entire mobility value chain

Matthias Kässer
PartnerMunich
Matthias leads the commercial vehicle segment for McKinsey in EMEA, working with manufacturers in the truck, bus, construction/agriculture/logistics...

Ani Kelkar
PartnerBoston
Advises incumbents, investors, and disruptors in the automotive, aerospace, energy, industrial automation, and robotics sectors...

Sebastian Kempf
Senior PartnerDüsseldorf
Leads our lifecycle products and services work for advanced industries in Europe and helps companies with growth strategies,...

Jitesh Khanna
PartnerGurugram
Leads McKinsey’s Center for Future Mobility in India, advises on electronic vehicle (EV) strategy and is a core member of the...

Masahiro Komatsubara
Senior PartnerTokyo
Serves automotive, electronics, and other globally active companies in the manufacturing and travel and transportation sectors...

Jan-Christoph Köstring
Senior PartnerMunich
Co-leads McKinsey’s Sciences for Growth globally, innovating our clients’ marketing & sales (M&S) approaches and accelerating...

Sebastian Küchler
PartnerMunich
Serves clients around the globe on R&D topics with a strong focus on transformation toward future technologies, efficiency improvement,...

Kevin Laczkowski
Senior Partner and Managing Partner, Midwest USChicago
Advises senior leaders on strategy, M&A, and performance transformation across automotive, commercial/recreational vehicles,...

Martin Linder
Senior PartnerMunich
Leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team; global colead for the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies as well as our sustainability...

Yogesh Malik
Senior PartnerWashington DC
Advises leaders in the industrial and automotive sectors on operations strategy globally, with a focus on using data and digital...

Varun Marya
Senior Partner, and Global Leader, Advanced IndustriesBay Area
Global leader of McKinsey’s Advanced Industries practice, advises companies on strategic questions and challenges related...

Inga Maurer
Senior PartnerChicago
Member of our Automotive & Assembly, Operations, and Private Equity Practices; advises clients on an array of issues, including...

Lukas Michor
PartnerVienna
Serves automotive clients on holistic performance transformations and leads our automotive supplier sector in Europe, the Middle...

Timo Möller
PartnerCologne
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility with a focus on the strategic and operational questions around disruptive trends;...

Nicolai Müller
Senior PartnerCologne
Brings extensive automotive industry expertise—helping clients with transformation programs, strategy and organizational initiatives,...

Hiroshi Odawara
Senior PartnerTokyo
Works closely with clients to realize corporate-wide transformation; brings deep expertise on a wide range of topics from growth...

Shivika Sahdev
PartnerNew York
Leader in the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility serving clients on navigating disruptions relating to electric-mobility. She...

Aurobind Satpathy
Senior PartnerMiami
Works on strategy, growth, operations, performance transformation, and turnarounds for clients in the industrial and private-equity...

Tobias Schneiderbauer
PartnerMunich
Serves global automotive and mobility companies on technology disruptions and the shift towards lifecycle products and services;...

Emily Shao
PartnerDetroit
Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models,...

Seungheon Song
Managing Partner and Senior PartnerSeoul
Seungheon is a Managing Partner of McKinsey Korea, and a Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company. He is leading McKinsey’s Advanced...

Erik Sparre
PartnerTokyo
Advises and serves industrial and technology clients on sustainable and transformational growth topics

Anders Suneson
PartnerStockholm
Supports clients across industries in accelerating decarbonization toward net-zero

Koichiro Taguchi
PartnerTokyo
Helps manufacturing companies to design and execute company-wide transformation from strategy development to daily operations

Andreas Venus
Senior PartnerBerlin
Serves as managing partner of our Berlin office and leads our advanced industries practice in Germany (incl. automotive & assembly,...

Ursula Weigl
PartnerMunich
Leads our activities in consumer and car finance in Europe and is part of the retail banking leadership team

Ting Wu
PartnerShenzhen
Guides industrial clients through comprehensive multiyear digital transformation journeys

Takuya Yamashina
PartnerKansai
Advises companies in the automotive and assembly, industrials and electronics, and electric power and natural gas industries...