Daniel Pacthod

About Daniel

Daniel globally co-leads McKinsey Accelerate, a group of more than a thousand practitioners, which helps leading organizations fast-track and sustain transformational impact through capability building, execution excellence, and leadership development. Previously, Daniel served on McKinsey’s Shareholders Council (our global governance board), and chaired the Technology and Capabilities Committee, overseeing the strategy to tech-enable and innovate the firm and further strengthen its long term knowledge and capabilities. Daniel also founded and led McKinsey New Ventures, a standalone unit created to incubate new analytic and digital assets, develop innovative client offerings, and build alliances and partnerships. He also built and led the firm’s Aerospace & Defense Practice and Advanced Industries Practice in the Americas.

Daniel primarily serves clients across the industrial, aerospace, defense, technology, and software sectors. He has extensive experience in reinventing incumbents through digital, analytics, and large-scale performance-transformation programs. His focus is on accelerating value creation across a portfolio of businesses, building new operational capabilities, driving international growth, and establishing world-class M&A and postmerger-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 HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery). He also served for nine years as a board member of the School of American Ballet, the preeminent ballet school in the US.