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Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company | A Global Leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey | USA Today National Best Selling Author | Advisor, Mentor, and Advocate for AI, Innovation, and Sustainability Alex Singla is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a Global Leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. In these roles, he helps companies transform by moving digital, data, and AI initiatives from pilot to full-scale adoption. He embeds change management and capability building as core elements of every transformation to ensure sustainable and measurable improvements in the business. He has led QuantumBlack’s expansion into a recognized global leader in AI, broadening its reach across industries and geographies and shaping its work at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and business transformation. He regularly speaks on technology and AI and has presented at more than 30 conferences. His perspectives have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and other leading publications. He is a co-author of Rewired: The McKinsey Playbook on How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI, a USA Today national bestseller and Publishers Weekly bestseller. With more than 25 years of experience, Alex advises clients on strategy and large-scale enterprise transformations, with deep expertise in service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, risk and claims management, marketing, and cost performance. Alex holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Outside of work, he mentors founders in the Creative Destruction Lab program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied AI (CAAI). He is passionate about the practical and responsible application of AI in business.
QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, helps harness the power of hybrid intelligence to create unimagined opportunities in a constantly changing world. Transform faster. Innovate smarter. Anticipate the future. At QuantumBlack, we unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations reinvent themselves from the ground up—and accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We do this by harnessing the foresight and precision of data and technology with the creativity and understanding of people. The result? Hybrid intelligence, a source of competitive advantage that transforms how companies think, operate, and disrupt. Our approach is relentlessly focused on real-world impact. QuantumBlack was born and proven in Formula 1, where teams live and breathe data. As the AI consulting arm of McKinsey, we blend powerful AI and cutting-edge solutions with deep strategic thinking and domain expertise to help our clients innovate and develop new opportunities.
Serving on the Advisory Council for Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied AI (CAAI), I provide strategic guidance and support initiatives to advance cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and social sciences. Additionally, I help bridge academia and industry by facilitating research collaborations, engaging as a speaker and panelist at key events, and guest lecturing to share real-world insights with students. My focus is on supporting initiatives that translate innovative AI research into practical applications for business, policy, and society.
Analytics 50 is a private community for senior-most data & analytics executives from globally respected organizations to intimately share ideas, solutions and collaborative discovery. As a member and an advisor to the membership, I participate in the day-to-day conversations and share perspectives given my global experience serving leading institutions on data & analytics topics.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science and technology-based companies. As a mentor I provide guidance to innovative technology startups who are accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.