Daniel Pacthod

About Daniel

Daniel co-leads McKinsey Sustainability, a rapidly growing global client platform focused on energy transition, climate and ESG. He helps clients transform and innovate to reach net zero by 2050, and build a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Daniel has also served on McKinsey’s Shareholders Council since 2014.

Previously, Daniel founded and led McKinsey Accelerate, a group of more than a thousand practitioners, helping leading organizations sustain transformational change through capability building and leadership development. Daniel chaired the Technology and Capabilities Committee on our global governance board, overseeing the strategy to tech-enable and innovate the firm. Daniel also founded and led McKinsey New Ventures, a standalone unit created to incubate new digital client offerings and build alliances and partnerships. He also built and led the firm’s Aerospace & Defense and Industrial Practices in the Americas.

Daniel primarily serves clients across the industrial, aerospace, defense, technology, and software sectors. He has extensive experience in helping leaders achieve sustainable inclusive growth. Other areas of impact include re-inventing incumbents through technology, accelerating value creation across a portfolio of businesses, building new capabilities, and establishing world-class M&A and merger integration capabilities.

Passionate about helping not-for-profit institutions in New York, Daniel serves on the board of trustees of Rockefeller University and on the Advisory Board of the Hospital for Special Surgery. He also served for nine years as a board member of the School of American Ballet.