Lucas is a partner in McKinsey’s Panama office. He joined the firm in 2016 and currently leads our supply chain work, as well as the Sustainability Practice in Spanish Latin America.
With extensive experience in operations, procurement, and sustainability, he has led large-scale transformations across consumer goods, logistics, heavy industry, and utilities, and has developed particular depth in nature capital, climate strategy, and circular economy initiatives across the region.
Examples of Lucas’s recent work:
- Designing and implementing large-scale EBITDA and procurement transformations for consumer goods and food and beverage companies, reducing total spend across direct and indirect cost levers.
- Leading strategic transformations for logistics players, capturing significant value across the supply chain.
- Driving operational transformations in heavy industry and extractive sectors, generating savings through OEE improvements, lean methodology, and procurement and supply chain efficiencies.
- Developing analytics use cases and predictive models for commodity purchasing in industrial sectors.
- Improving operational performance in utilities, boosting revenue recovery and cutting service and overtime costs.
- Leading nature capital and net zero pathway programs with national governments, covering strategy, financial structuring, and decarbonization aligned with global climate and biodiversity goals.
- Directing McKinsey's nature AI global effort, applying gen AI to complex environmental challenges and scaling delivery capabilities.
- Developing green business building and ESG strategies for players in recycling, agribusiness, and holding companies.
- Leading waste management and circular economy initiatives, integrating public- and private-sector stakeholders at scale.