Eric Kutcher

About Eric

Eric is the global leader of McKinsey’s High Tech, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications Practices. Since joining, he has served high-tech and industrial companies across the value chain, including large telecommunications operators, prominent software companies, leading technology conglomerates, and semiconductor companies. Additionally, Eric leads the firm’s initiative to serve fast-growth, business-to-business technology companies.

Deeply committed to McKinsey’s gender research, Eric leads the firm’s partnership with LeanIn.Org to develop a holistic diagnostic and longitudinal benchmark to understand how McKinsey can help companies create an environment for women to succeed in the workforce.

Eric is also a member of the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice, where he has played an important role in advancing McKinsey’s work in corporate growth. As a thought leader at McKinsey, Eric is a sought-after speaker and author.

Eric’s recent work includes:

• leading a complete turnaround of one of the world's largest storage players—including strategy, M&A, integration, and transformation—doubling the size of the company
• guiding the platform transformation of a leading business-to-business software and media company, including rebasing costs, developing the platform strategy, executing the transition plan, and redesigning the organization
• steering the restructuring of a midsize software company, including the transformation office, pricing execution, back-end process redesign, sourcing, and strategy
• leading the sales transformation of one of the world's largest tech companies, and building capabilities to develop and sell solutions for analytics and digital

Outside of McKinsey, Eric serves on the boards of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the Hopkins School, and he is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Eric is an avid and competitive golfer, skier, and Yankees fan.