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Tarang Agarwal

PartnerSingapore

Leverages AI expertise to drive holistic digital transformation across telecommunications, media, technology, and fintech sectors in Southeast Asia

Tarang leads McKinsey’s regional work on AI in the telecommunications, media, technology, and fintech sectors. He specializes in helping clients realize value from their data to drive growth through core revenue acceleration, new business building, and stronger operations.

With over ten years of experience in cutting-edge data and business-building topics, Tarang has served clients across six continents spanning public and private enterprises.

Examples of Tarang’s recent client work include:

  • driving end-to-end AI transformation for multiple telecoms to deliver above-market growth, creating operational excellence with a build-out of both an AI platform and an AI talent factory
  • leading several commercial excellence and growth hacking efforts at operators to turbo-charge revenues through analytics-led pricing, reimagination of distribution, and new product creation
  • building fintechs from the ground up for telecom operators across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, helping them monetize their data, customer base, and channels. This includes leading work on creating new credit models, designing products, building teams, and scaling digital-led go-to-market models
  • designing, building, and launching SME-focused payments and lending fintechs for multiple banks across Southeast Asia
  • designing and building several incubators for large companies, helping them create a platform to build new businesses using their endowments
  • creating a country’s digital economic blueprint to enable a stronger AI, data, and tech-driven transformation in traditional companies and build-out of this digital sector

Tarang has lived and worked across Australia, India, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States.

Education

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
MBA, finance and management

Darthmouth College
BA, economics and mathematics