Vinayak leads McKinsey's AI arm, QuantumBlack, and the firm's Tech & AI Practice in Asia-Pacific. He works closely with leading incumbents and fast-growing technology companies across North and South Asia.
Vinayak helps institutions maximize value from technology by helping imagine, build, and scale new businesses, transform legacy technology to be fit for purpose, and scale AI and analytics capabilities across organizations. With a focus on disruptive and transformative digital opportunities, Vinayak has spent significant time with executives at global and local institutions in Asia as they undertake strategic “big bets” and build new capabilities to remain relevant in an increasingly digital and AI-driven world.
Examples of his recent client work include:
- architecting enterprise-wide GenAI and Agentic AI transformations to maximize value from safe and efficient AI scaling
- leading end-to-end AI and digital transformations across organizations to accelerate value creation
- building a new B2B2C business for a fast-growing technology start-up
- leading a comprehensive and ambitious three-year digital transformation program for a leading local institution
- building a greenfield digital attacker across all aspects: value proposition, customer-tested front-end applications, technology-infrastructure, organization, and talent
- reducing time to value from analytics by 50 percent, increasing number of models by approximately ten times, and industrializing AI and machine learning at scale
- developing the strategy and business-model design to build a multi-country digital business in Asia–Pacific for a leading global institution
- developing a multichannel sales model, enabling sales across all digital channels, powered by a next-product-to-buy analytics models and redesigned onboarding customer journeys
- formulating an innovative digital banking business model focused on the consumer and small and medium-sized enterprise segments, including potential non-bank partnerships for a leading local bank in Asia
Vinayak is a member of the McKinsey Global Institute Council, advising on MGI research on global economic, business, and technology trends, and has helped establish deep fact bases on new trends and dynamics in the Asian markets. He has coauthored several publications on AI, digital, and technology trends.
