Mr. de Jong is a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company. As co-leader of McKinsey’s North America digital-utility work, he seeks to position utilities favorably in a world characterized by flat load growth, increasing cost pressures, and rising customer expectations.

Eelco works with electric utilities and other large industrial companies to drive innovation and change at scale. Working in partnership with CIOs, he looks for opportunities to implement principles, such as lean IT, agile, development operations, and the increased use of cloud technology. He also helps business leaders deploy these disruptions to build completely reimagined customer journeys and internal processes.

Before joining McKinsey, Eelco worked at Generation Investment Management, a $5 billion assetmanagement company focused on integrating research on sustainability with classic value investing.

Passionate about music, Eelco has also worked with his native Holland’s Museum Speelklok to organize exhibitions on musical history across Europe and Asia. He has a BA and MA in Musicology from Utrecht University, and an MBA in Strategy and Operations from Harvard Business School.