McAi

Our people

The partners who lead the work

3,400 colleagues across 24 offices, and a partnership model where the person who sold the work stays on it.

Dr. Amara Okafor

Dr. Amara Okafor

Global managing partner

London · AI strategy, operating model

Leads McAi's global practice on AI operating models. Twenty years advising boards on technology-driven change; previously led enterprise data at a European universal bank.

Jonas Lindqvist

Jonas Lindqvist

Senior partner, financial services

Stockholm · Risk, governance, credit

Works with banks and insurers on model risk, underwriting economics, and the evidence infrastructure that makes supervisory speed defensible.

Priya Raghavan

Priya Raghavan

Senior partner, operations

Singapore · Supply chain, planning, manufacturing

Rebuilds planning and operations for industrial and consumer clients. Specialises in turning monthly cycles into continuous, agent-assisted replanning.

Sofia Almeida

Sofia Almeida

Partner, energy & retail

Madrid · Data products, demand, grid

Leads decision-led data programmes across energy and retail. Her work on flexibility markets and assortment models is used by operators in six countries.

Hannah Berger

Hannah Berger

Partner, healthcare & public sector

Berlin · Clinical operations, responsible AI

Advises provider systems and public bodies on operational AI with a clinical or citizen-facing consequence. Chairs McAi's responsible-AI review board.

Marcus Feldman

Marcus Feldman

Partner, advanced industries

Chicago · Industrial AI, plant operations

Spent nine years on plant floors before consulting. Leads the firm's work on yield, reliability, and operator-in-the-loop systems.

Daniel Mbeki

Daniel Mbeki

Partner, people & organisation

Johannesburg · Workforce, reskilling, change

Designs workforce transitions for organisations absorbing AI into their operating model. Publishes the firm's work on capability building at scale.

Yuki Tanaka

Yuki Tanaka

Partner, technology & software

Tokyo · Engineering productivity, products

Works with software and platform companies on AI-native product strategy and on applying AI to their own engineering and support economics.

Nadia Haddad

Nadia Haddad

Partner, cybersecurity & resilience

Dubai · Security operations, AI estate

Leads security and resilience work, including the emerging discipline of protecting model endpoints, pipelines, and agent permissions.

How we behave

Four commitments, applied to our own firm

Truth over comfort

We tell clients what the evidence shows, including when it contradicts the programme they have already funded. Our baselines are written down before the work starts.

Operating reality over pilot theatre

A use case is real when it runs in production, has a named owner, and moves a number someone is accountable for. Everything else is a pilot and is resourced as one.

Judgement stays human

We design systems in which accountability is held by a person who can disagree with the model easily, and we say clearly which decisions we would never delegate.

Own the outcome

We stay until the capability is running without us. That usually means teaching, documenting, and handing over decision rights rather than defending them.

Join us

We are hiring across every practice

Consultants, engineers, designers, and researchers who would rather measure than assert.