Eric is McKinsey & Company’s chair, North America, leading the firm across the United States and Canada. He is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Technology, Media, & Telecommunications Practice, which he led globally for five years. He served as the firm’s chief financial officer from 2020 to 2024, where, in addition to his usual CFO responsibilities, he oversaw the largest change in the firm’s philosophy to its arrangements and alignment of fees to impact; instituted a “carbon tax;” oversaw the implementation of a cloud-based ERP system across nearly 60 countries; and undertook an effort to further strengthen the firm’s balance sheet.
Eric has and always will remain a client-serving senior partner, with a strong record of partnering with executive teams across the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors as well as the advanced industrial sector (including advanced electronics, semiconductors, and aerospace and defense) to set bold ambitions and build and execute on the roadmaps to achieve their goals.
Examples of Eric’s recent work include:
- guiding the platform transformation of a leading B2B software and media company, including rebasing costs, developing platform strategy, executing the transition plan, and redesigning the organization
- partnering with one of the world’s largest software companies to nearly triple its historical growth rate—working to revamp its marketing organization, product management capabilities, engineering development output, and new sales motions
- leading the integration of a major systems provider’s largest software acquisition, providing a new integrated platform for its security offering
- driving an operational and financial performance turnaround for an aerospace OEM worth billions of dollars—aligning the top team and revamping its culture, in addition to driving a step-change in performance that led to the first-ever achievement of its five-year plan
- partnering with a leading private equity firm as it incubates three new business lines in healthcare, sustainable energy generation, and AI
As a thought leader on global topics, he is a sought-after speaker and author, sharing insights on high-profile stages such as Fortune, Milken, Forbes, and CNBC TV. Eric is also deeply committed to McKinsey’s research on women in the workforce and helped establish the firm’s partnership with Lean In—a nonprofit dedicated to supporting women’s leadership and inclusion in the workplace—to develop a holistic diagnostic and longitudinal benchmark to better understand how McKinsey can help companies create an environment for women to succeed in the workforce.
Beyond McKinsey, Eric serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and sits on the boards of Cornell University, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Impact Through Golf.
