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Dinu de Kroon

PartnerZurich

Leads tech-driven productivity transformations in manufacturing, supply chain and procurement in both process and discrete industries.

Dinu is a partner at McKinsey’s Zurich office. With a focus on elevating client aspirations in operational performance, he integrates lean principles with cutting-edge AI, digital, and automation technologies. Over the past decade, Dinu has advanced McKinsey’s digitally enabled production system for process industries. Leading the Swiss Operations Hub, Innovation & Learning Centers, and overseeing the Global Lighthouse Network’s activities in EMEA, he is at the forefront of driving impactful change.

Examples of recent work include:

  • guiding the development and global deployment of a digitally enabled production system with a large consumer goods company
  • helping establish a procurement center of excellence, crafting a capability-building roadmap, and leading procurement value capture efforts for a large basic materials company
  • conducting a digital full potential assessment, designing the target state, and building capabilities for deployment with a consumer goods manufacturing lighthouse site
  • executing an advanced analytics transformation of large petrochemical site, improving profit per hour from higher yield, energy efficiency and throughput
  • leading product complexity reduction, designing a new operating model, rationalizing footprint, and enhancing plant-by-plant performance improvement in collaboration with a specialty chemicals company
  • guiding the implementation of a supplier capability-building program for a large semiconductor player to accelerate capacity ramp-up while enhancing service levels
  • assisting in the optimization of metal costs and driving decarbonization initiatives with an aluminum company

Published work

From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption,” McKinsey & Company, June 2024

How manufacturing’s Lighthouses are capturing the full value of AI,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024

Adopting AI at speed and scale: The 4IR push to stay competitive,” McKinsey & Company, February 2024

Global Lighthouse Network: Adopting AI at speed and scale,” World Economic Forum, December 2023

Global Lighthouse Network: Unlocking sustainability through fourth industrial revolution technologies,” World Economic Forum, September 2021

Global Lighthouse Network: Reimagining operations for growth,” World Economic Forum, March 2021

PAST EXPERIENCE

Procter & Gamble, Geneva
Information & Decision Solution Manager

EDUCATION

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Master of Science, Communication Systems

London Business School
MBA