Gary Pinkus

Gary is chairman of North America. He was previously the managing partner for the firm in North America, and before that led McKinsey’s office for the western United States. Gary is also a former global leader of McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice, which he helped cofound more than a decade ago.

Gary joined McKinsey in Los Angeles in 1987 as a business analyst and came to the firm’s San Francisco office in 1992. Over the course of his career, he has worked for Dole Food Company in Honduras, Bear Stearns’ mergers and acquisitions group in New York, and in McKinsey's Houston, Mexico City, Sydney, and Zurich offices.

He also serves on the boards of the California Academy of Sciences, the Menlo School, and the California Business Roundtable. He is a prior member of the boards of the San Francisco Opera, ReSurge International (formerly Interplast), and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, as well as a prior member of the investment committee for the Woodside School Foundation.

He earned a bachelors degree in English and quantitative economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.