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Stefan Heck

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Stefan is a Consulting Professor at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, teaching courses and conducting research on innovation, energy, and resource economics. Previously he was a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey and co-founded the Cleantech and Sustainability practices. Stefan has worked extensively with Fortune and Global 100 technology, industrial, infrastructure, building systems, retail, utility and energy companies across the US, China, Korea, Japan, India, and Europe. He has counseled CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, and GMs of new businesses on disruptive technologies, scaling, and globalization. He has also served a number of national and city governments both in the US and Asia on industrial and technology policy and green growth. Topics Stefan has worked on in recent years include: Renewables including solar, wind, and waste to energy Road transportation from EVs, hybrids, batteries, motors, power electronics, freight, route optimization, and transportation systems design/congestion initiatives Entry into China, managing IP, JVs with Asian conglomerates, and shifting production to low cost countries Project financing, regulatory strategy, design of feed-in-tariff and other tax incentive schemes M&A and cross border/global integration and portfolio restructuring Cultivating change leaders and BU GMs, especially for new businesses or disruptive business models Building systems including controls, elevators, HVAC, windows, low voltage electrical systems, modular building systems, energy efficiency technologies and policy programs Grid infrastructure including smart meters, energy storage, distribution automation, transformers, inverters, systemic risk assessments and resiliency plans Lean plant operations (LED, solar, semiconductor, transformer plants), global procurement (for motors, manufacturing equipment, machining, electronic components) Investment strategy, due diligence, and operations transformation work for private equity, sovereign wealth funds, and government investment vehicles Stefan previously led McKinsey’s Global Semiconductor Practice serving the leading foundry, equipment, MPU, flash memory, and EDA players on both strategic and operational topics, and building out the practice into Asia. In the late 1990s, Stefan founded McKinsey’s B2B ecommerce practice and worked with many of the leading ecommerce companies in infrastructure, supply chain, and distribution. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was responsible for developing Apple’s web presence, built a prototype agent-based satellite image delivery systems for NASA, founded the Stanford Solar Car Project, developed expert systems for IBM, and developed pattern recognition neural networks at Xerox PARC.
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