Danny is a leader in McKinsey Digital, working primarily in the Middle East and Africa. He leads our work in digital transformation, core technology, and Leap—McKinsey’s business-building offering—across the financial services, consumer, and public sectors.
Examples of Danny’s recent work include the following:
- developing the digital strategy for multiple leading financial institutions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe
- building a greenfield digital attacker proposition for a leading Islamic bank in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
- developing the technology strategy and transformation roadmap for several banks, large pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and consumer companies in the GCC and the Middle East
- developing the growth strategy and operating model for multiple payments companies in the Middle East, GCC, and North Africa
Danny joined McKinsey in 2018, having served in C-level roles across investment and commercial banks in the Middle East, most notably in strategy, business development, and technology. As Group CIO of a regional universal bank, he led one of the region’s first digital transformations and the setup of a digital attacker.
Danny is passionate about financial inclusion and entrepreneurship, and is active with regional startups, especially ventures that aim to disrupt existing industries.