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Jorge Grieve

PartnerRiyadh

Leads McKinsey’s Business Building efforts in the Middle East, and heads the B2B chapter of MBB across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMA)

As leader of McKinsey Business Building, Jorge works with private and public investors, corporations, and well-funded start-ups to help them design, launch, and scale new digital businesses to disrupt traditional industries and unlock transformational growth. He brings extensive experience in launching and scaling new businesses and has acted as a serial entrepreneur and cofounder who has helped his clients launch more than 20 high-profile start-ups in the last few years. This includes digital-attacker banks, B2B AI solutions, and ecosystem platforms in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He also combines his builder profile with deep expertise in innovation and disruption-related topics, such as AI, digital ecosystems, advanced analytics, and growth hacking.

Some recent examples of Jorge’s work include:

  • building and scaling six leading digital-attacker banks across multiple countries in Latin America
  • building an AI and analytics venture for a large energy company
  • developing a large proptech platform in the Middle East
  • building a venture factory for a leading energy corporation
  • launching a loyalty ecosystem in the Middle East
  • launching a B2B digital ecosystem based on IoT and machine learning analytics in the aquaculture industry
  • designing and scaling a digital pharmacy and healthcare ecosystem
  • creating the company builder arm of a major financial group
  • building a large digital insurance company in Latin America

Published work

The three building blocks of a successful venture factory,” McKinsey & Company, May 2025

PAST EXPERIENCE

Citigroup Inc
Corporate banker

HSBC Bank
Business analyst

EDUCATION

London Business School
MBA

Universidad de Lima
BEng, industrial engineering