Avinash is the global co-leader of McKinsey’s Chemicals & Agriculture practices. As an advisor to executives, he helps companies boost value by expanding their geographical territories and product offerings. Equally experienced in addressing issues of company structure and ownership, Avinash leads our work in organization design and family-owned businesses across Asia. He leads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey in Asia, and is at the helm of the McKinsey Academy, the firm’s global learning and development program for digital and analytics training and capability building.

With deep expertise in the India business environment, Avinash advises on market-entry strategy, postmerger organization, organization design, leadership development, and advanced analytics. Offering an end-to-end strategic approach, his projects often include substantial performance transformations and successful operational redesigns.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

• leading a sustained partnership with an agriculture company that resulted in tenfold growth over the course of a decade
• guiding an end-to-end transformation of a global agriculture company’s supply chain
• shaping a set of outlooks and interventions to reduce food waste in India
• directing the postmerger integration of two specialty chemical companies in Europe, setting up an integration-management office, and leading the communication and change-management processes