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Vladimir Kulagin

Senior PartnerSingapore

Drives impact partnerships and projects focused on topline growth acceleration, new business building, next-gen operating models, and commercial and digital transformations across the telecommunications, consumer, media, retail, financial, and real estate sectors

Vladimir leads McKinsey’s Telecommunications Practice in Asia Pacific and is a key leader in the firm’s Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, and High Tech (TMT) and Consumer Practices across the region. He spearheads the firm’s work in growth-focused digital and analytics transformations in the TMT and Consumer sectors across Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

Specializing in large-scale, growth focused company transformations with global footprint, Vladimir helps companies accelerate topline growth through strategic portfolio optimization, M&A, commercial and marketing capability building, product and service innovation, and new business launches. He leverages best-in-class commercial toolkits, customer analytics and AI, design thinking, and operating model evolution to drive impact. 

Vladimir also contributes to McKinsey’s global expertise in strategy and private equity, growth, marketing & sales, digital ecosystems and business building, advanced analytics, and organizational transformation. He has led large-scale transformations in these areas in over 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. 

Prior to joining McKinsey, Vladimir worked as a technology and legal-compliance expert in an electrical-power company.

Published Work

Next-generation operating models for the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020

What to do with consumption poverty during pandemic? [in Russian],” Kommersant, June 2020

Digital @ Scale: The Playbook You Need to Transform Your Company,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019

Digital Russia: New reality,” McKinsey & Company, July 2017

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
MBA

Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia)
BA, international economics

University of Maryland University College (Russia and Germany)
BA, business