Kevin Naicker is a consultant in the Industrial Practice, focusing on assignments in global metals and mining. He has dedicated two decades to serving industrial clients around the world, and brings extensive experience in large-scale transformation, organizational design and creating the mining operations of the future.
With an insatiable curiosity about the importance heavy industries will play in building a better future—not just for local communities, but the world at large—he is deeply passionate about the industrial sector’s delivery of large-scale capital project delivery to stimulate economic activity, and for the sheer engineering bravado of these undertakings.
Extensive experience supporting clients in the global industrial sector
- At BCG, Kevin was a partner focused on strategy, operations and organizational topics in the global industrial goods sector.
- He has led multiple projects on strategy development, re-organisation and operating model, capital delivery, operations excellence and broad organisation-wide transformations at both BCG and McKinsey & Co.
- He has acted as chief of staff to the CEO of Vedanta Zinc International, as a project engineer at DRA and Bateman, and as a process specialist at BHP’s aluminium assets.
Kevin earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and an Advanced Diploma in project and programme management from Cranefield College. He is a professionally accredited engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa.