Meet Mehrdad BaghaiManaging Director, Alchemy Growth Partners |
Mehrdad is Managing Director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia. Mehrdad has been advising large global companies on growth, organization design, and transformation for the last 20 years. He currently works with clients in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Mehrdad is co-author of the international best-sellers, The Alchemy of Growth, and its sequel, The Granularity of Growth. He travels widely and is frequently asked to address business audiences about emerging ideas in the field of management.
He is currently co-leader of the As One flagship project, the Deloitte organization’s global initiative on collective leadership. He is also Chairman of Emue Technologies, the worldwide leader in authentication and personal identity protection.
Previously, Mehrdad was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey & Company and co-leader of the firm’s worldwide Growth Practice. He has also served as an Executive Director at the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, with overarching responsibility for growth.
Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a co-founder of the High Resolves Initiative, a community project on global citizenship, which has engaged over 15,000 high school students.
Mehrdad received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree with highest honors from Princeton University. He continued his education at Harvard where he completed a Master's degree in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a Juris Doctor degree with high honors at Harvard Law School.
