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Basel Kayyali

Senior PartnerNew Jersey

Global leader of McKinsey’s Technology Practice; assists healthcare, high-tech, and telecommunications companies with digital and analytics/AI transformations targeted at their core businesses

Basel is a senior partner and leads McKinsey’s Technology Practice, focusing on tech and AI globally and in North America. He has extensive experience leading digital and analytics/AI transformations for Fortune 500 clients across the healthcare, technology (software and telecommunications), financial services, and oil and gas sectors. He brings more than two decades of experience working with top teams to use technology and AI to transform their businesses.

Examples of Basel’s recent client work include the following:

  • helped a leading SaaS-based software player grow their market cap sixfold in 13 years
  • led an enterprise-wide AI transformation at a leading global integrated oil and gas company that identified and pursued $6 billion in incremental EBITDA
  • launched an enterprise-wide transformation for a leading health insurer seeking to address policy headwinds
  • supported a leading global telecommunications organization in a broad-based transformation of its technology and network organization, and accelerated its B2B business growth
  • helped a leading health insurer design and implement a bold digital and analytics/AI transformation to reduce administrative costs by $500 million while improving provider and customer experiences

Published work

Breaking technical debt’s vicious cycle to modernize your business,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023

Digital health ecosystems: Voices of key healthcare leaders,” McKinsey & Company, October 2021

Four ways to improve technology service resiliency,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020

The next wave of healthcare innovation: The evolution of ecosystems,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020

Why digital transformation should be a strategic priority for health insurers,” McKinsey & Company, April 2016

Risk and responsibility in a hyperconnected world,” McKinsey & Company, July 2014

How big data is shaping US healthcare,” McKinsey Quarterly, May 2013

The big-data revolution in US health care: Accelerating value and innovation,” McKinsey & Company, April 2013

PAST EXPERIENCE

Intel
Brand manager; architect

EDUCATION

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
MBA, strategic management (Palmer Scholar)

Pennsylvania State University
BS, electrical engineering (Schreyer Scholar)