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Olivier Gorter

Senior PartnerAmsterdam

Leverages senior-executive and board-level experience to significantly improve financial performance and organizational health across industries, with a particular focus on the consumer goods, food, and agriculture sectors

An expert at executing comprehensive performance and health-improvement strategies, Olivier advises clients across industries, bringing deep expertise to the consumer goods, food, and agriculture sectors. Olivier partners with boards and executive teams to guide complex transformations, leveraging decades of management experience in combination with the latest AI capabilities.

Recent examples of Olivier's client work include:

  • driving a four-year strategic turnaround for a major food company, fundamentally changing its strategy, operating model, and footprint to significantly improve financial performance and organizational health
  • setting up and leading a two-year operations transformation of a food preservatives company with a focus on manufacturing productivity, procurement efficiency, and supply chain optimization
  • advising on a transformation program for a mid-tier bank, including a 50% reduction of branch network, a 20% productivity increase, rebranding from five to one brand, and reducing cost-to-income ratio by 20pp.

Before joining McKinsey in 2013, Olivier was a partner of a private equity fund and held senior management roles at Koop, Bertelsmann, and Philips. He is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish.

Published work

European Transformation Summit: Empowering people,” McKinsey & Company, February 2025

European Transformation Summit: Fresh leadership perspectives,” McKinsey & Company, February 2023

Telecom operators: Surviving and thriving through the next downturn,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019

The role of the chief transformation officer,” McKinsey & Compnay, November 2016

Past experience

Redesign Partners
Managing partner

Koop Holding Europe
CFO

Slavenburg Bouw
President and interim CFO

Arvato Bertelsmann
CFO, Benelux

Education

INSEAD
MBA

Leiden University
LLM, international law