Avinash leads McKinsey’s Chemicals and Agriculture Practices in Asia. As an advisor to executives, he helps companies boost value by expanding their geographical territories and product offerings. Equally experienced in addressing issues of company structure and ownership, Avinash leads our organization-design and family-owned–business work across Asia. He also leads McKinsey’s Analytics Academy globally.
With deep expertise in the India business environment, Avinash advises on market-entry strategy, postmerger organization, organization design, leadership development, and advanced analytics. Offering an end-to-end strategic approach, his projects often include substantial performance transformations and successful operational redesigns.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- leading a sustained partnership with an agriculture company that resulted in tenfold growth over the course of a decade
- guiding an end-to-end transformation of a global agriculture company’s supply chain
- shaping a set of outlooks and interventions to reduce food waste in India
- directing the postmerger integration of two specialty chemical companies in Europe, setting up an integration-management office, and leading the communication and change-management processes
Published work
“India’s chemical industry: Unleashing the next wave of growth,” McKinsey & Company, February 2020
“Resilience in chemicals: How to prepare for the next downturn,” McKinsey & Company, November 2019
“Beating the cycle: Building resilience in chemicals,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019
“Reshaping an emerging-market giant,” McKinsey & Company, March 2016
“Solving the puzzle of India’s petrochemical-intermediates shortfall,” McKinsey & Company, November 2015
Building a self-sufficient petrochemical intermediates industry in India by 2025, McKinsey & Company, January 2015
Education
St. Stephen’s College
BS, mathematics