Marco Breu

Marco is a partner in McKinsey’s Vietnam office, where he served as the managing partner for 12 years. He advises private companies across multiple sectors on corporate strategy, digital transformation, corporate governance, and growth.

Marco works with Vietnamese state-owned enterprises on business restructuring programs. He also oversees McKinsey’s public sector work in Vietnam, with a particular focus on master planning, economic development, and social growth at the provincial level.

A Swiss national, Marco joined McKinsey’s Zurich office in 1999. He moved to Asia in 2002. Initially based in Seoul, he worked in Singapore before assuming the role of managing partner for Thailand. In 2008, he launched the Vietnam office and has been instrumental in leading the firm’s growth and expansion in the country since.

Passionate about social innovation, Marco founded The Mekong Business Challenge, an annual entrepreneurship program for the Mekong region. Since 2006, the program has welcomed over 1,000 teams from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Bhutan, and supported them in screening, planning, and incubating new businesses.

In 2018, Marco took a sabbatical from the firm to serve as professor of business administration at the Royal Thimphu College in Thimphu, Bhutan. He holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Berne, Switzerland and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Outside of McKinsey, Marco is an active angel investor in a series of startups in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the areas of fintech, e-commerce, retail, and agriculture.