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Ákos Légrádi

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Leads McKinsey’s next-gen growth in banking work across Europe and the Middle East; helps banks adopt a customer-first paradigm and outcompete neobanks

Akos serves major financial institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, focusing on digital and AI-driven growth transformations. He is the European and Middle East leader of McKinsey’s next-gen growth in banking work.

His core expertise includes outcompeting neobanks in next-gen customer acquisition, building hyper-personalized customer value management (CVM) capabilities, and establishing winning loyalty programs, among others. Akos also has extensive experience in operating-model and organizational transformations, focusing on the implementation of customer-centric operating models.

Besides his focus on AI-enabled digital growth, he serves financial institutions, telecommunications, and other players on a broad range of topics, including AI transformations, strategy definition, and operating model work.

Published work

Quarterly Business Review: How to extract benefits beyond transparency,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

A bank branch for the digital age,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018

Past Experience

IBM
Product manager

Education

Columbia Business School
MBA

Corvinus University of Budapest
BA, international business