Carlos Kirjner Principal, McKinsey & Company

Carlos is a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Stamford, Connecticut office and one of the leaders of our telecommunications practice. He has worked with telecom service providers and equipment manufacturers in strategy, marketing, organization, and operations. His most recent experience includes:

• Working major wireless equipment manufacturer to develop a portfolio of initiatives in new networking technologies such as 802.11 (wi-fi), 802.16 (wi-max), 802.15, as well as proprietary technologies

• Worked with a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer to develop R&D, product, and channel roadmaps to leverage emerging networking and communications technologies such as RFID, multidimensional bar codes, and integrated, multi-protocol wireless devices

• Working with a large North American carrier to identify and size an opportunity to provide consulting, integration, LAN management, and other value added services to businesses

• Evaluating the impact of new technologies such as gigE, storage area networks, and IP-VPNs on enterprise buying behavior for a large north American service provider

• Working with a telecom equipment manufacturer to develop a perspective on adoption timing of different technologies by enterprises and carriers, focused on VoIP

• Counseling an investor considering acquisition of assets in multiple telecom service areas: rural LEC, CLECs, and competitive IXCs

Before joining McKinsey, Carlos worked as a researcher at the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley, as a design engineer for Siemens, and as an engineer for a top engineering services company in Brazil.

Carlos received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.