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
“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