Subu Narayanan

Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

Subu Narayanan is an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company and leader in the IoT venture in North America. He has deep expertise in leading large-scale, technology-enabled transformation programs. His specific focus is on helping clients develop full technology stack, drive agile offering development, build monetization approaches, and drive large scale culture change. He has served a variety of companies across industries developing and scaling IoT and digital solutions, and helping clients break out of “pilot purgatory”.

Subu is a published author and speaker, with his work featured in publications such as Harvard Business Review and McKinsey Quarterly. He received an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was a Marketing Executive at Siemens.

Outside of work Subu is an accomplished Indian classical musician with overall a hundred concerts around the world. He is a composer, song writer, singer and percussionist and has been featured in 4 international albums. He lives in Chicago with his wife Veerapriya, a UX designer and 6 month old daughter Sia.