Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Suchi Srinivasan

Management consultants McKinsey built its success by hiring the top 1% of graduate talent. Or, in the case of Suchi Srinivasan, vice-president of McKinsey Ventures, rehiring them.

Srinivasan had worked initially as a management consultant at McKinsey for two years between 2005 and 2007 after stints at technology firms Avaya and Lucent.

She was rehired to help develop McKinsey Ventures in 2014 following business development work at Cleanweb Hackathon, a non-profit community building event for global entrepreneurs, her startup Watts At Work and operational roles at software provider Microsoft.

Mario Aquino, managing partner at McKinsey Ventures Asia-Pacific, said: “McKinsey New Ventures has built an extensive track record investing in big data and advanced analytics over the past four to five years, and becoming one of the most successful and fastest-growing parts of our firm.

“Our 35-plus digital solutions startups – a combination of organic innovations, equity-based deals, and partnerships – have completely transformed the digital capabilities that McKinsey is able to deliver to its clients and now operate at scale with more than 1,000 dedicated professionals.

“While innovation and cutting-edge technology play a big role, it is not without the talent and leadership of our teams that we have been able to build such a great success story.

“Suchi – who runs our partnerships team – is a perfect example of the high-impact leaders that we attract and groom and without whom would not have been possible to generate such a high traction in such a short period of time.”

Srinivasan completed her MBA at New York University Stern School of Business, her MSc in computer engineering at Rutgers and her BSc in electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras.