Irina Starikova

About Irina

Irina is one of the leaders in IT transformation and infrastructure for McKinsey. Drawing on deep expertise in next-generation infrastructure, cloud computing, and digital enablement, Irina advises both companies that are using and companies that are developing these IT products and services to enhance innovation and productivity. Her primary focus is on the technology, healthcare, and consumer industries.

Examples of her recent work include the following:

• working with a global technology company to develop a long-term IT strategy to cut costs, improve effectiveness, and transition to a next-generation IT infrastructure
• helping a large healthcare provider to develop its infrastructure demand and capacity-management capabilities, as well as optimize its data-center strategy and cloud adoption
• implementing lean IT principles to boost performance for a large industrial IT organization, resulting in a 25 to 30 percent gain in productivity
• developing a cloud strategy for a large financial-services company and helping put it into practice, including developing a new operating model to provide more flexible services and reduce cost

Irina is an active contributor to McKinsey's research, including leading McKinsey's enterprise cloud-infrastructure survey that studies trends in enterprise cloud adoption. She is also one of the authors of McKinsey's 2017 Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org and the Wall Street Journal. This research series aims to identify gaps in female leadership and proposes actionable steps toward a more equitable workplace.