SUMIT BHANSALI

About Me

Currently working as a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Co. , I am a seasoned senior client advisor and distinctive business problem solver with over 12 years of management consulting, investment banking and corporate finance experience across US, India, Australia and South East Asia. Entrepreneurial leader in McKinsey’s technology, media and telecom (TMT) and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) practices, with passion for driving business value and at-scale organizational transformation. People leader passionate about motivating individuals and teams to solve complex business challenges. Areas of expertise include corporate finance, corporate strategy and business development, M&A, sales strategy and transformation, and cost reduction.

I have previously worked at Bain & Co. in San Francisco, Lazard Freres & Co. in San Francisco and Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York.

I graduated with a PhD and MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. My PhD thesis was in the area of Management Science (subject area: Economics of Information Technology). I am a graduate of Computer Science at Stanford University, where I was a Henry Ford Fellow.

Prior to Stanford, I graduated in 2.5 years at the top of my class from the ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) department at Georgia Institute of Technology.