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Eric Hannon

PartnerFrankfurt

Serves global automotive and mobility companies as a core leader of our Automotive & Assembly Practice and leads our global urban-mobility team

Eric has nearly 20 years of consulting and industry experience serving global automakers, their suppliers, and other mobility companies. His work as a leader of McKinsey’s global urban-mobility team seeks to understand and develop cutting-edge perspectives on the cross-sector implications of mobility trends.

Recent examples of his work include the following:

  • supporting the development of a megacity’s pollution-abatement strategy to significantly reduce particulate matter within 12 months
  • working with a global oil and gas producer to identify and quantify the long- term strategic and margin impacts of emerging mobility trends
  • identifying new adjacent business opportunities in new mobility markets for a downstream oil and gas company
  • developing and coauthoring a model for a policy-organization report—outlining a strategy for the large-scale deployment of electric—resulting in a multibillion dollar congressional initiative
  • designing a growth-strategy product for the emissions-product division of a large tier-one automotive supplier, identifying a viable path to tripling revenue within 7 years
  • leading a product-development improvement program for a premium automotive OEM, identifying and implementing core process improvements as well as applying an innovative solution for increasing project teams’ overall performance, leading to a 20 percent improvement in their performance

Prior to joining McKinsey, Eric held various product-development and manufacturing positions at a major automotive manufacturer in both the United States and Germany.

Published work

Low-carbon fun: Making RV manufacturing greener,” McKinsey & Company, September 2022

Mobility’s net-zero transition: A look at opportunities and risks,” McKinsey & Company, April 2022

It’s not easy buying green: How to win at sustainable sourcing,” McKinsey & Company, February 2022

How companies capture the value of sustainability: Survey findings,” McKinsey & Company, April 2021

Mobility investments in the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, March 2021

The zero-carbon car: Abating material emissions is next on the agenda,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020

Transit investments in an age of uncertainty,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020

A new look at autonomous-vehicle infrastructure,” McKinsey & Company, May 2019

The road to seamless urban mobility,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2019

Tuning in to value: How Sky redesigned its set-top box for the circular economy,” McKinsey & Company, September 2018

An integrated perspective on the future of mobility,” McKinsey & Company, October 2016

Past experience

PwC’s PRTM Management Consultants
Manager

DaimlerChrysler
Product development engineer

Education

University of Michigan
MBA

Oakland University
MS, electrical engineering

Michigan Technological University
BS, electrical engineering
BS, mechanical engineering