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Lalit Bhagia

PartnerMumbai

Leads McKinsey’s Asia Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice as well as the Asia Digital Marketing, Operations, and Technology (DMOT) guild

With deep expertise in unlocking digital-led business growth, omnichannel strategy, and e-commerce acceleration, Lalit serves companies in India, Southeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan. He partners with C-suite leaders across industries—including financial services, insurance, consumer, retail, and automotive—to scale digital businesses, drive transformational growth, and build future-ready marketing engines.

His work spans the spectrum of growth marketing, from strategy to execution: launching new business models, go-to-market strategies, performance marketing, AI in marketing, martech transformation, brand building, and scaling platform businesses. Lalit combines ideation and execution to help organizations achieve top-line growth, enhance market valuation, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen competitive advantage.

Recent examples of Lalit’s client work include:

  • driving 4x growth for a leading life insurer’s digital business in India over 21 months
  • scaling profitable digital acquisition and building marketing AI capabilities for an online lending platform
  • launching and growing a digital-first ecosystem for a top general insurer
  • scaling the lending business for one of the largest banks
  • building and accelerating a direct-to-consumer (D2C) business for a large, diversified conglomerate
  • hyperscaling acquisitions, cross-sell, and upsell strategies for a leading brokerage firm
  • developing end-to-end martech capabilities for a major bank and a top credit card provider
  • doubling the e-commerce business for a Japanese apparel brand in a 12-month period
  • launching and executing the go-to-market strategy for an electric two-wheeler business in India and Indonesia

Lalit also spearheaded the acquisition of an India-based digital marketing firm, through which he has built and now leads a global digital marketing operations and technology (DMOT) hub supporting clients worldwide. He has built internal tools, capabilities, and institutional expertise to scale McKinsey’s growth marketing practice globally.

A frequent keynote speaker at global marketing forums, Lalit is recognized as one of the region’s foremost growth marketing practitioners.

Past experience

Dentsu Consulting
CEO, business and consumer services

Star TV (Now Disney Star)
VP and Head of Digital, telecom, media, and technology

Digitas (Publicis Groupe)
EVP and Head of Asia Pacific

Education

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
International business program

Pune University
MBA, computer technology

Mumbai University
BEng, instrumentation and electronics