(US and Canada) McKinsey and Company, an American worldwide management consulting firm, has announced that Microsoft executive Jacky Wright will join the company later this year as its first Chief Technology and Platform Officer. Wright will lead McKinsey’s overall technology portfolio and strategy.

Wright joins from Microsoft US, where she served as chief digital officer and corporate vice president. Prior to that, she held senior technology executive roles across multiple industries including chief information officer roles at BP and General Electric. She brings to McKinsey over 20 years of experience working with some of the world’s leading institutions leveraging technology to drive innovation, and adopt sustainable business models and digital transformation.

“Jacky will strengthen how we use technology both to help clients scale new ideas and tackle challenges, and to transform the way our more than 40,000 people work together across our global firm,” says Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels. “She joins a team of leaders who have been focused on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth in our client work, and setting the standard for our profession in how we manage ourselves as a firm.”

A proven technology executive, Wright was recently named as the UK’s most powerful Black Briton in the Powerlist 2022. She is a Women In Science and Engineering Ambassador, a member of the World Economic Forum Chief Digital Officer Community, and serves on the advisory board for the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she received her bachelor’s in Business Administration.