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Fritz Nauck

Senior Partner, and Chief Risk OfficerCarolinas

Advises financial services executives as they set and pursue new strategies to achieve sustained financial performance; advises on a broad range of risk and resiliency topics across industries

A longtime member of the Financial Services Practice in the Americas, Fritz leads our insurance work in North America and coleads the firm’s global Insurance Practice. He previously served as the global coleader of our Risk & Resilience Practice.

Since joining McKinsey, Fritz has advised the full range of businesses that comprise the financial services sector. Through a period of intense market turbulence, including rapidly changing digital technologies, competitive innovation, changing consumer behavior, and evolving regulatory frameworks, he has offered expert guidance and helped executives stay ahead of the pace of change.

With a particular focus on serving leading insurance and banking firms, Fritz helps institutions set strategy, achieve operational performance improvement, manage risk and build resilience, undertake organizational redesign efforts, and purse successful mergers and acquisitions.

Strongly interested in future-looking industry strategy, Fritz has contributed to several McKinsey-published articles describing emerging dynamic and successful business models in insurance and United States banking.

While on active duty in the United States Navy, Fritz served as the assistant engineer and weapons officer.

Published work

Anant Bhalla on the convergence of insurance, asset management,” McKinsey & Company, May 2024

Countering inflation: How US P&C insurers can build resilience,” McKinsey & Company, August 2022

The CEO’s risk agenda: An insurance perspective,” McKinsey & Company, April 2022

The resilience imperative: Succeeding in uncertain times,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021

The disaster you could have stopped: Preparing for extraordinary risks,” McKinsey & Company, December 2020

Meeting the future: Dynamic risk management for uncertain times,” McKinsey & Company, November 2020

Optimizing water treatment with online sensing and advanced analytics,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Stability in the storm: US banks in the pandemic and the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020

The value for insurers in better management of nonfinancial risk,” McKinsey & Company, November 2019 

Education

The University of Chicago
MBA, finance and economics

United States Naval Academy
BS, mathematics