Benjamin Stretch

Ben Stretch is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in Sydney, Australia. He leads McKinsey's Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice in Australia and New Zealand.134 In this role, he counsels senior executives on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, transaction due-diligence, and improving organizational performance.14

Some key points about Ben Stretch's career and expertise:

1. He serves global financial institutions and principal investors, advising them through periods of industry disruption.1

2. Ben has deep expertise in strategy, M&A, transaction due-diligence, restructuring, cost management, and transformation.1

3. He recently led McKinsey's work on Asia's evolving 'corporate ecosystems' as part of the firm's research on the Future of Asia.1

4. Prior to joining McKinsey in 2017, Ben was a principal at another global management consulting firm (Boston Consulting Group) and a senior vice president of investment banking at Macquarie Group in New York.12

5. He currently serves as a non-executive director of Mental Health First Aid Australia and as a board observer for The Black Dog Institute in Australia.1

Ben Stretch is recognized as a leader in McKinsey's strategy, private equity, and financial institutions practices in Australia and New Zealand.2 His LinkedIn profile username is indeed "bstretch".45