Dr. Ani Kelkar is a partner based in McKinsey’s Greater Boston office and is a leader within the firm’s advanced industries practice. In this capacity, he serves clients along the entire automotive, aerospace, and defense value chain, ranging from suppliers and OEMs to distributors and services providers.
Additionally, Ani is a core leader within the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (MCFM) in the Americas and oversees its work with disruptors. He leads the advanced automation and autonomy sector within MCFM and serves industrial automation, robotics, and autonomous systems disruptors. He also works with investors looking to capture opportunities arising from major mobility trends, such as autonomous driving, electrification, software-defined vehicles, shared mobility, and connectivity. Ani has authored several publications on the topics of automation and autonomous systems.
Examples of his client work include the following:
- delivering a step-change improvement in margin and operational performance through a comprehensive transformation of the supply chain organization for a defense OEM
- embedding early warning systems across supply chain and quality organizations to shift to proactive operating models and reduce operational disruptions for an aerospace OEM
- driving value capture as part of a “merger of equals” to deliver deal synergies in an accelerated timeline for an automotive supplier
- collaborating on strategy design and go-to-market “war room” to drive a 100 percent topline growth rate for a robotics disruptor
- evaluating multiple transactions across autonomous systems across people and goods mobility, leading to a $1 billion investment by innovation fund for a growth investor
An engineer by training, Ani earned his PhD from Purdue University and bachelor’s from the Institute of Chemical Technology in India. In addition to his work at McKinsey, he serves as a director at ICT Foundation, an organization established to help promote and support educational activities at his alma mater.