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Tunde Olanrewaju

Managing Partner, UK, Ireland and IsraelLondon

As managing partner of McKinsey’s UK, Ireland and Israel offices, Tunde brings deep experience in supporting a range of financial services, private equity, consumer facing and public sector institutions on strategy, digital transformation, analytics, operations, organization and culture.

Tunde is the managing partner for our UK, Ireland and Israel offices and is a senior partner in McKinsey’s London office.

In his client service, Tunde leads our fintech work in Europe, and is one of the leaders that helped create McKinsey Digital, which builds design, engineering, analytics, and product capabilities within the firm to support clients in the digital transformation of organizations, the launch of disruptive attacker propositions, and exploiting data analytics at scale.

Some of his recent client experience includes the following:

  • supporting a large UK bank in standing up a cross-functional journey digitization capability to systematically reinvent and build out new customer journeys such as account opening and small and medium-sized enterprise lending to be greater than 75 percent more efficient
  • conducting multiple investment diligences for growth-equity investors into fintech assets (payments, digital banks, digital lenders, consumer ecosystems) including stress-testing market and growth expectations, competitive context, capability benchmarking, and risk considerations 
  • conducting a strategic review and digital marketing transformation for a leading online brokerage group, repositioning the business for growth in new segments and installing a new agile digital marketing organization to capture and activate new customers 
  • developing the innovation portfolio for a leading bank in response to digital customer trends—embedded finance and fintech attackers—regulatory shifts, and leading the design, incubation, and building of a new digital nonfinancial advisory product from concept to scaling and operational handover
  • supporting a European defense authority on the end-to-end transformation of its major IT contracts to transition to the cloud, including systematic identification of cost-reduction opportunities, creation of a new contracting model to fund transformation, and ongoing commercial and delivery support to execute the change
  • shaping the digital strategy for a leading real-estate company across its various formats, such as urban, rural, residential, and retail, which included surfacing opportunities to drive sustainability outcomes and new data-driven business models

Tunde was previously the firm’s Global Chief Technology and Platform Officer, overseeing client and colleague-facing technology assets across the world including ensuring their cyber and operational resilience. He is a leader of the McKinsey Black Network—a global community of colleagues and alumni committed to creating an environment where Black colleagues can advance, connect, and grow.

Outside McKinsey, he is a trustee of Oxfam, a not-for-profit organization that fights against poverty, and a board member of Innovate UK, the United Kingdom’s commercial innovation agency, which is part of UKRI.

Tunde holds a first-class master’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Imperial College London, where he was a Lucent Global Science Scholars Program scholar.

Published work

Ethnocultural minorities in Europe: A potential triple win, McKinsey & Company, February 2024

Ethnocultural minorities in Europe: An untapped growth opportunity,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

The arts in the UK: Seeing the big picture,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

Fintechs: A new paradigm of growth,” McKinsey & Company, October 2023

Race in the UK workplace: The intersectional experience,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023

Europe’s fintech opportunity,” McKinsey & Company, October 2022

Fintech in Africa: The end of the beginning,” McKinsey & Company, August 2022

Financial data unbound: The value of open data for individuals and institutions,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021

Problems amid progress: Improving lives and livelihoods for ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Detour: An altered path to profit for European fintechs,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020

Harnessing Nigeria's fintech potential,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020

Tech for Good: Helping the United Kingdom improve lives and livelihoods,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020

What it takes to deliver breakthrough customer experiences,” McKinsey & Company, November 2015

Cutting Through the FinTech Noise: Markers of Success, Imperatives For Banks,” McKinsey & Company, December 2015

How winning banks refocus their IT budgets for digital,” McKinsey & Company, December 2014

The rise of the digital bank,” McKinsey & Company, July 2014

Finding your digital sweet spot,” McKinsey & Company, November 2013 

Education

Imperial College London
MEng, electrical and electronic engineering (Lucent Technologies Global Science Scholar)