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Daniel Boniecki

Senior PartnerWarsaw

Applies deep expertise in telecommunications and technology to help clients on strategy, M&A, sales, and operational improvement issues as well as how to capture new market opportunities.

Daniel is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Warsaw office, where he has worked for over 30 years since the firm’s early presence in Poland. During this time, he served as managing partner in Poland and subsequently led McKinsey’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice across Central Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

He specializes in growth strategy and value-creating transformations. His expertise includes scaling AI (including the deployment of AI agent factories), international expansion, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance optimization, and succession planning.

Daniel advises leading companies across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, working with clients in e-commerce, technology and data centers, consumer goods and retail, pharmaceuticals, media, manufacturing, asset management, energy, and logistics. His clients include some of the largest private and state-owned enterprises, many of which have achieved substantial, multifold increases in value through transformations delivered in collaboration with McKinsey.

He is a coauthor of reports on the development of the Polish economy in the context of emerging technologies, including “Poland 2025” and “Digital Poles,” as well as publications prepared in collaboration with Forbes, such as “5 Priorities for Poland,” “The AI Revolution,” and “Digital Poland.”

Daniel holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (1998) and has completed executive education programs at The Wharton School. He joined McKinsey in 1994 as a business analyst and has also worked in the firm’s London, Dubai, and Riyadh offices.

Selected Published Work

"Winning the rush for data services in the Middle East and Africa," McKinsey Quarterly, May 2016

"5 opportunities for Poland," McKinsey and Forbes, October 2015

"A Window of Opportunity for Europe," McKinsey Global Institute, June 2015

"How Poland can become a European growth engine," McKinsey & Company, February 2015

"Poland 2025: Europe's New Growth Engine," McKinsey & Company, January 2015

Education

Harvard University
MBA
1998