Ashish Kothari

About Ashish

Ashish leads our West Coast hub for the consumer sector, helping consumer-packaged-goods companies, retailers, and packaging companies accelerate margin growth.

Ashish has led several transformation efforts across a wide range of products, including food, beverage, toys, home cleaning, apparel, and cosmetics. He leads our design-to-value work globally in the consumer sector, helping clients design winning products based on deep consumer, competitive, and operational insights.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

• developing a growth strategy for a packaging company that doubled top-line growth
• developing a packaging strategy for a top manufacturer to drive substantial margin improvement
• guiding an effort for a consumer-products company to develop a value-segment growth strategy, achieving a 10 percent increase in top-line growth
• supporting a holistic operations transformation—including procurement and design to value—for a large consumer company, driving margin improvements over 5 years through direct materials optimization
• designing a global procurement transformation for a large food company, delivering sizable cost savings
• leading merger integration and synergy capture for a large food company, unlocking substantial savings and revenue-growth opportunities

Before joining McKinsey, Ashish was an advisory professional with consulting experience covering innovation, market entry, customer profitability analysis, growth strategy, process improvement, and technology implementation. He leads our recruiting efforts at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he earned his MBA.