Arun Arora

Arun Arora is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company based in Paris.4 He has over 25 years of technical and operational experience in managing businesses and driving transformations.12

Career Highlights

Arun has held several key positions throughout his career:

• Current Role: Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company in Paris4
• Previous McKinsey Roles: Partner in Chicago and Madrid1
• Other Notable Positions:
  • CEO and President of a retail and services business in the US
  • SVP/GM Global e-commerce at Staples
  • Head of Global Operations at Groupon
  • Senior executive at Sun Microsystems and 3M
  • Product Manager for OS X and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Apple

Expertise and Achievements

Arun specializes in helping clients transform businesses and overall customer experiences by leveraging technology.2 Some of his notable accomplishments include:

• Growing a retail and services business from $8.3 billion to over $10 billion in less than 24 months1
• Creating a digital business unit that generated $2 billion in incremental revenue within five months1
• Scaling Groupon's business from $100 million to $2 billion in less than eight months12
• Managing Staples.com and Staples mobile properties, which were globally $12 billion in revenues and the #2 online e-commerce website behind Amazon1

Education

• MBA from Harvard Business School
• BS in Finance from the University of Kansas1

Arun Arora is recognized as a global leader of McKinsey's NeXT Commerce initiative, drawing on his extensive operational and leadership experience to help clients navigate complex business transformations.3