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Alex Singla

Senior Partner, Chicago

A global leader at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, advising CEOs and boards on strategy, AI transformations, operations, and value creation across industries.

About Alex

Alex is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a global leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. In these roles, he helps companies transform by moving digital, data, and AI initiatives from pilot to full-scale adoption. He embeds change management and capability building as core elements of every transformation to ensure sustainable and measurable improvements in growth, productivity, and customer experience.

He has led QuantumBlack’s growth and expansion into a recognized global AI leader, broadening its reach across industries and geographies and shaping its work at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and business transformation.

Alex regularly speaks on technology and AI and has presented at more than 30 conferences. His perspectives have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and other leading publications.

With more than 25 years of experience, Alex advises clients on strategy and large-scale enterprise transformations, with deep expertise in service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, risk and warranty management, marketing, and cost performance.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves on the board of trustees of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and actively supports the American India Foundation (AIF). He also mentors founders of innovative AI and technology start-ups accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied AI (CAAI), supporting research at the intersection of AI and the social sciences.

Past experience

Arthur Andersen
Senior Consultant

Education

University of Chicago Booth School of Business
MBA, strategy, finance, and entrepreneurship

University of Illinois Gies College of Business
BS, finance and accounting

PUBLISHED WORK

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Rewired glossary
AI transformers versus tinkerers
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Agentic AI advances
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Agentic AI advances
AI at work but not at scale
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