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Asad Husain

PartnerToronto

Leverages expertise in strategy and operations to help clients execute programs that accelerate growth, boost profitability, and deliver sustainable performance improvements

Asad focuses on supporting clients in the automotive and industrial equipment industries in executing large-scale strategic transformation programs to achieve the full potential of their organizations across all key revenue, cost, and organizational levers. He is a core member of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients on a range of topics related to mobility disruptions.

Examples of Asad’s work include the following:

  • developing an advanced analytics solution for automotive incentive strategy to drastically improve predictive accuracy and unlock savings by optimizing incentive allocation
  • leading a holistic profitability program at a large US automotive car manufacturer, covering all key revenue, cost, and organizational health levers
  • developing a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) strategy for a global automotive player, building on the company’s capabilities and brand positioning to target new segments and business models
  • managing a growth transformation program for a major industrial manufacturer to identify new market opportunities and launch execution, to accelerate growth and double EBITDA within three years
  • rapidly streamlining the support function structure for a major commercial vehicle company, achieving significant efficiencies across the HR, finance, IT, legal, and marketing and sales functions
  • leading a procurement cost reduction effort at a major tier-one automotive supplier, achieving a significant reduction on direct material spend as part of a larger transformation program

Published work

Attracting and retaining tech talent to sustain mobility’s growth,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

The new automotive mandate: Moving from building products to building businesses,” McKinsey & Company, May 2023

Net-zero emissions in US government fleets,” McKinsey & Company, April 2022

The trends transforming mobility’s future,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2019

Setting the framework for car connectivity and user experience,” McKinsey Quarterly, November 2018

Accelerating the car data monetization journey,” McKinsey & Company, March 2018

Past experience

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Manufacturing engineer 

Education

Harvard Business School
MBA

University of Waterloo
BASc, mechanical engineering