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Jon Garcia

Senior Partner

26North Partners

Washington, DC, USA

Jon Garcia

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Jon’s Biography

Jon Garcia is a Senior Partner at 26North Partners, a fully integrated, next-generation alternatives platform with more than $22B AUM. He also serves as the Head of the firm's Alpha Creation Team.

Jon previously served as a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and was the President & Founder of McKinsey’s RTS unit. RTS (“Reset – Transform – Sustain”) is a specialized group within McKinsey, dedicated to delivering large-scale, rapid, sustainable performance improvement, using a proven approach. Under Jon’s leadership, RTS partnered with organizations across industries and markets to execute more than a hundred highly complex, successful transformations and turnarounds over the last decade.

With more than 25 years at McKinsey, Jon’s personal experience included a wide variety of organizational settings, from market leaders facing disruption, to companies seeking a “good to great” performance lift, to fast-growing organizations building for scale. His clients represented a range of sectors, including industrials, financial institutions, consumer goods, business services, and healthcare,... Jon Garcia is a Senior Partner at 26North Partners, a fully integrated, next-generation alternatives platform with more than $22B AUM. He also serves as the Head of the firm's Alpha Creation Team.

Jon previously served as a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and was the President & Founder of McKinsey’s RTS unit. RTS (“Reset – Transform – Sustain”) is a specialized group within McKinsey, dedicated to delivering large-scale, rapid, sustainable performance improvement, using a proven approach. Under Jon’s leadership, RTS partnered with organizations across industries and markets to execute more than a hundred highly complex, successful transformations and turnarounds over the last decade.

With more than 25 years at McKinsey, Jon’s personal experience included a wide variety of organizational settings, from market leaders facing disruption, to companies seeking a “good to great” performance lift, to fast-growing organizations building for scale. His clients represented a range of sectors, including industrials, financial institutions, consumer goods, business services, and healthcare, among others.

Before founding RTS, Jon led McKinsey’s principal investor practice and advised a set of leading alternative asset managers active in hedge funds, distressed investing, and private equity. From 1996 to 1998, Jon was a senior official in the Clinton Administration, where he led the reorganization of a $6bn portfolio of government loans made to bidders on mobile communications licenses. He started his career as an attorney at the law firm Paul | Weiss where he worked on a range of corporate and bankruptcy matters.

Jon serves as Chairman of McKinsey.org, the firm’s corporate foundation. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from Georgetown. READ MORE VIEW LESS

Jon’s Newsfeed

PR Newswire

26North Announces Addition of Seven Partners, Launches Direct Lending Team

26North Partners marked its first year with the announcement that seven asset management industry specialists have joined the firm as Partners, namely Larry Berg, Jon Garcia, Andrew Rabinowitz, David Yu, Michael Mastropaolo, Jordan Walter and Jorge Beruff.

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CEO Magazine

The Hardest Climb: Jon Garcia

Jon Garcia, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, discusses how organizations can achieve large-scale, sustainable change, his commitment to philanthropy, and more.

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Jon’s Background

26North Partners

Senior Partner

Jul 2023 - Present

New York, NY, USA

26North is a fully integrated, next-generation alternatives platform with more than $5 billion in assets under management.

McKinsey & Company

Senior Partner

Dec 2010 - Sep 2023

Washington, DC, USA

McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. The firm works with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders.

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Jon’s Gallery

Current Board Positions

McKinsey & Company

Chairman

Dec 2010 - Present

New York, NY, USA

Jon is the Chairman of the RTS unit at McKinsey & Company. The division provides clients pursuing innovative and sustainable improved performance with a proven approach to transformational change.

McKinsey.org

Chairman

Washington, DC, USA

McKinsey.org is a social development foundation that uses McKinsey & Company's capabilities to help develop fresh, scalable solutions to social issues by connecting with leaders from the social, public and private sectors.

Media

The role of the executive team in a transformation: A conversation with Jon Garcia

Insights

Apr 2022

In this short video, Jon delves into what executive teams can do to help their transformation efforts succeed.

A formula for transformation success: A conversation with Jon Garcia

Insights

Apr 2022

Jon shares information about the three important factors that must be considered for transformation success: will, skill and rigor.

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Interviews

The elements of success: A conversation with Jon Garcia and Wesley Walden

Interviewed

Jul 2019

In this interview, Jon Garcia and Wesley Walden highlight five critical circumstances that will position a company for success.

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Interviewed

Apr 2019

Jon shares his experience of managing large-scale transformations, as well as what it takes to achieve long-term advancements in corporate performance.

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Features

Environmental non-profit Delterra spins out of McKinsey.org

Quoted

Nov 2021

The new environmental non-profit will continue McKinsey.org’s impactful recycling initiative. Jon Garcia, who chairs the social development foundation, says they are extremely proud of what the Rethinking Recycling team has achieved.

Capability building in 2030

Quoted

Feb 2021

McKinsey executives Jon Garcia, Liz McNally, Daniel Pacthod and Michael Park describe how capability building may transform over the next 10 years.

Publications

Closing the capability gap in the time of COVID-19

Author

Nov 2020

Jon discusses the Covid-19 crisis, a traditional approach to corporate training, promising approaches some businesses have taken to tackle the challenges created by Covid-19, and more.

Public Service

Federal Communications Commission

Senior Official

1996 - 1998

Washington, DC, USA

Jon was a Senior Official in the Clinton Administration. He led a federal government task force that restructured a $6-billion portfolio of subsidies provided to bidders on spectrum for mobile communications services (the “C Block”).

Jon’s Education

Harvard Law School

JD

1990 - 1993

London School of Economics

MSc, International Relations

1989 - 1990

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