Alex is a partner in McKinsey’s New York office and coleads our work in critical materials, metals, and metals and mining capital construction in North America. He has more than two decades of consulting experience in the metals and mining sector with a focus on aluminum, carbon and stainless steel, copper, iron ore, and critical materials—such as electrical steel, graphite, manganese, nickel, titanium, and rare earth elements—along with end-of-life materials and scrap.
Alex’s areas of expertise include capital construction excellence; commercial strategy and pricing; due diligence for exits, acquisitions, and turnarounds; as well as metals and mining maintenance and repair, operations and digital.
In capital excellence, Alex works with clients who are investing in and constructing large metals and mining facilities, including mills, mines, smelters, and refineries.
He has worked with clients across North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Alex’s recent client work includes the following:
- supporting metals and mining companies with investment and capital construction for production and processing facilities in North America, from initial business case and concept to estimation, feasibility, FID, construction, commissioning, and ramp-up
- formulating strategies and conducting due diligence for clients investing in critical minerals and rare earth elements—including scenarios and stress-testing, pricing and commercialization plans, business cases for investments in new facilities and upstream supply chains, and circular economy agreements
- conducting multiple operational and technical diligences on ferrous and nonferrous recycling assets in North America throughout the value chain from collection, dismantling, and shredding through to processing
- assessing value pools in end-of-life ferrous and nonferrous scrap-sourcing value chains from waste collection to processing and transport, and evaluating new technology solutions to improve alloy segregation
- acquiring and building ITAD and e-waste businesses for companies at each stage of the value chain, from decommissioning and data erasure to base and precious metals recovery and reuse
- serving a government on critical minerals security and investment
Outside his client work, Alex has been leading the firm’s response to the tariffs and trade actions that have affected commerce in materials, metals, and mining globally. With his colleagues from the Geopolitics Practice and the Global Materials Insights, Alex has been developing approaches to address priorities such as supply chain security, stockpiling, and the downstream impact of metals and mining on commercial and industrial construction.
Before joining McKinsey, Alex was a managing director and partner with a global consulting group in the US, Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. He is a native speaker of English and Spanish, and speaks French, German, Italian, and Russian.