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Sriram Sekar

PartnerNew Jersey

Helps healthcare organizations transform their performance through technology, digitalization, data, automation, and advanced analytics

Sriram is a partner at McKinsey’s New Jersey office where he leads McKinsey’s technology strategy and transformation work for healthcare clients. He has 23 years of experience serving healthcare companies on technology topics across transformation, performance improvement, digitalization, automation, AI, data, cloud, and architecture. He has led major transformations across clients ranging from leading academic medical centers to not-for-profit regional health systems to national, for-profit health systems.

A technologist by background, Sriram is the coauthor of McKinsey’s technology transformation approach (Tech:Forward) and McKinsey’s tool for evaluating technology capabilities, which are used across all industries.

Examples of Sriram’s recent work include:

  • helping lead performance and cost transformation for an academic medical center’s technology organization across partnerships, app rationalization, infrastructure modernization, and cybersecurity
  • facilitating the digital and analytics transformation of a mission-driven hospital system to deliver business value, including a new operating model design, electronic health record consolidation, new cloud-based architecture, modern ways of working, commercialization and growth, and partnerships
  • guiding the technology, digital, and analytics transformation for an ambulatory healthcare provider to ensure improved patient experience, analytics to support value-based care, and better employee experience through a new operating model, IT productivity improvement, and new architecture
  • directing a global Fortune 500 healthcare conglomerate’s technology transformation and strategy, cloud migration, agile, and data transformation

PUBLISHED WORK

The Tech:Forward recipe for a successful technology transformation,” McKinsey & Company, December 2022

How to become ‘tech forward’: A technology-transformation approach that works,” McKinsey & Company, November 2020

Achieving success in large, complex software projects,” McKinsey & Company, July 2014

PAST EXPERIENCE

Mphasis
Relationship and delivery lead, North America, healthcare and life sciences

Wipro Technologies
Client partner

Infosys Technologies Ltd
Business development manager

Citigroup
Manager, corporate and investment bank

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
MBA, finance, strategy

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Bachelor of technology, electronics and communication