Karan is a core leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, where he helps lead at-scale digital and AI transformations for organizations across the Middle East and Asia. Beyond organizational transformations, Karan specializes in helping ecosystems ideate and implement foundational initiatives to bring about end-to-end change across the AI value chain—from sovereign computing to specialized applications and solutions.
Karan has more than a decade of experience serving institutions across a variety of sectors, including national planning councils, government entities, and private corporations in industries that include technology, insurance, and oil and gas.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- helping a Gulf region country fulfill its ambition to become a global AI champion, including building data centers, offering cutting-edge cloud and model capabilities, and creating state-of-the-art applications and solutions
- supporting a country’s initiative to develop a local large language model and accompanying AI use cases to unlock ecosystem-wide financial impact
- setting up an AI center of excellence to help an oil and gas major unlock impact across its entire upstream operations value chain
- leading a Gulf region country’s initiative to create national data foundations by building a digital- and AI-driven national census that used geospatial analytics and AI-driven imputation to produce one of the world’s fastest data-to-insights censuses