Thomas Seitz

Thomas Seitz is a Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company in Houston. During his more than 20 years with McKinsey, he was the Southern Region Managing Partner, the Managing Partner of the Houston location, the leader of the Global Energy Practice, the founder and leader McKinsey’s Renewable Energy and Capital Productivity service lines.

He is an elected member of McKinsey’s Shareholder Council, McKinsey’s Board. He is the chair of McKinsey’s Global Partner Election Committee responsible for the election of Partners. He joined McKinsey and Company Düsseldorf in 1997 and transferred to the Houston office in 1998.

Over the course of his career with McKinsey, he has served clients across all continents. He has led more than 100 large scale transformations with significant impact repositioning companies across the Energy, Chemicals, and Technology sectors with transformational step changes. Thomas Seitz has supported clients globally with their strategic repositioning in the changing energy markets. He has led the global co-operation with the World Economic Forum and more than 50 CEOs globally on Energy Game Changers and Energy Transition.

He is the Chair of the Strategy Committee on the Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors in Texas where he serves and is a frequent speaker and moderator on relevant board topics. In addition, he has been appointed by the Governor of Wyoming to serve on the Board of Endow, the economic development initiative of the state.

Thomas Seitz studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Aachen, Germany and Cornell University in New York. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Economics from the University of Aachen in 1994 and co-led, as Assistant Professor, the leading Energy Research Institute in Aachen, while building a technical consulting firm serving clients in Europe and Asia.