Sean is a leader in our Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice. He advises energy, engineering, and technology clients on strategic and operational challenges. He also serves investors on issues relating to energy, technology, and sustainability, bringing particular expertise in clean technologies.
Examples of Sean’s recent client projects include the following:
- advising a leading energy company on technologies for distributed generation in the United States, with estimates of market size and grid-parity tipping points for each technology
- helping a US solar company to identify opportunities for operational efficiencies in technology deployment, procurement, installation, sales, and business-support functions
- assisting a leading North American engineering and construction company with a back-office transformation and process redesign
- supporting a global industrial company in developing an entry strategy for the US energy-storage market, including assessing applications, sizing markets, and designing an implementation roadmap
- working with a major US utility to develop a renewable-energy strategy across wind, solar, and hydro technologies
Published work
“How residential energy storage could help support the power grid,” McKinsey & Company, March 2019
“The new rules of competition in energy storage,” McKinsey & Company, June 2018
Past Experience
Heart Capital
Head of strategy and development
Goldman Sachs
Financial analyst
Education
Columbia University
MA, business administration
Harvard University
BA, psychology