Forest leads our digital work in the Operations Practice in Greater China. His work focuses on helping clients from the automotive, high tech, machinery, and basic materials industries create IoT ecosystems, upskill digital talent, and execute successful digital transformations, including diagnosis, strategy, design, and implementation.
Forest has served and collaborated with over 400 multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, and private companies across diverse industries and processes.
Prior to joining McKinsey in 2011, Forest spent 17 years in senior operations management in the automotive, semiconductor, and machining industries. He has been invited by the World Economic Forum to visit over 70 members of the Global Lighthouse Network worldwide. Forest is also the founder of the Tsinghua McKinsey Digital Capability Center and a guest professor in the MBA program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.