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Emily Shao

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Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models, and sustainability

Emily is a leader within McKinsey’s Advanced Industries and Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Practices. She is also a core leader of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility, and is at the forefront of our mobility disruptor sector. She advises organizations on a range of strategic and operational topics, including developing strategic roadmaps, creating equity stories, accelerating product launch, and driving operational efficiency and effectiveness. Emily serves incumbents, disruptors, start-ups, and investors on future of mobility topics.

Emily’s recent client projects include the following:

  • accelerating a flagship product launch for an electric-vehicle start-up via control tower and execution planning across quality, engineering, supply chain, organization and culture areas, as well as the program management office
  • leading a strategic partnership and go-to-market “war room” for a sustainability disruptor, which resulted in contracts to maximize production capacity for the next three years
  • developing a future-of-mobility strategy for an industrial incumbent, unlocking access to more than $100 billion in its total addressable market by 2030
  • creating equity stories for multiple disruptors, including an electrification start-up, a lidar (laser identification and detection and ranging) company, and urban air-mobility disruptor, an autonomous trucking group, and a micromobility company, which led to successful fundraising rounds and IPOs
  • building a predictive-maintenance, advanced-analytics program at a major automotive-components supplier, creating the equivalent of 60 percent total cost reduction

Prior to joining McKinsey, Emily also worked as a program manager at an autonomous vehicle start-up. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son.

Education

Harvard Business School
MBA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, mechanical engineering

MIT Sloan School of Management
BS, management science