Jose Luis Blanco

Blanco leads McKinsey’s construction, building materials, and home building work worldwide. He advises leaders across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Blanco has served builders with a specialization in operational excellence, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, and digital transformations. He brings deep expertise in optimizing performance and unlocking value through embedding digital capabilities and deploying and scaling up new technologies. Before joining McKinsey, Blanco spent almost 10 years at ACS, Europe’s largest contractor, where he led hundreds of engineers and workers in completing some of the company’s most complex projects.