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Homayoun is the managing partner for McKinsey’s France offices and a senior partner of the firm.

He works alongside his clients bringing McKinsey’s latest innovations in digital, design, and analytics to help achieve above-market growth. Homayoun’s client work covers a broad range of industries and geographies, such as high tech, media and telecommunications, and industrial and consumer companies in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Homayoun is the co-author of Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders, published in 2012 by John Wiley & Sons (with a second edition in 2016). Sales Growth distills the insights from hundreds of McKinsey engagements and interviews with 200 successful global companies’ leaders into a set of stories and practical ideas for driving above-market growth. Tens of thousands of viewers have watched his interview series on Sales Growth TV. He is also the author of multiple articles on sales management. As the convener of McKinsey’s Growth Summit, he regularly brings together chairpersons and CEOs from the world’s most prominent companies to discuss their growth agenda.

Homayoun has been a member of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was awarded the Seley Scholarship, Sloan’s highest merit award.

Maria is a director of knowledge in McKinsey & Company’s Marketing & Sales Practice and is located in the Miami office. Maria works with B2B and consumer companies in the United States, Latin America, and Europe to build advanced sales capabilities that drive above‐market growth. Over the past ten years, Maria has led research on sales growth, go‐to‐market strategy, sales capability building, channel excellence, advanced analytics in sales, and commercial transformation.

Maria is the co-author of Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders (salesgrowth.mckinsey.com), which distills the insights from hundreds of McKinsey engagements and interviews with hundreds of successful global sales leaders into a set of stories and practical ideas that drive above-market growth. She is also the author of multiple articles on sales management for business magazines including Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, and McKinsey Quarterly.

She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she received the Siebel Scholarship.

Results oriented manufacturing and distribution executive with a blend of strategy, line management, and transformation experience. Deep expertise across a variety of manufacturers and distributors on growth strategy, business development, due diligence, M&A, performance management, commercial and operational transformations. Respected leader who has built, developed, and mentored highly effective teams

After retiring from IBM in June, 2010, John joined McKinsey & Company as a Senior Advisor. In his capacity, John acts as an advisor to McKinsey’s clients in the Financial and Technology sectors. John Callies served as general manager, IBM Global Financing from May 2004 until his retirement from IBM on June 1, 2010. With operations in 55 countries supporting 125,000 clients, he led the world’s largest information technology financing and asset management organization. He was responsible for business direction and management of a portfolio of nearly $35 billion in total assets. Previously, as vice president, marketing, On Demand Business for IBM, John had companywide responsibility for all marketing efforts in support of On Demand Business along with leading the marketing management discipline for IBM. John joined IBM Corporation in 1976. In 1985, he joined IBM Credit Corporation (now called IBM Global Financing), where he progressed through various executive positions in sales and operations and was named general manager, end user customer financing, in 1991. In this position, John built IBM’s financing business into an integrated sales, marketing and inventory management organization in support of IBM’s hardware and software businesses.

In 1996, John was named general manager, small and medium business, IBM Asia Pacific Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Since then, he has filled roles in marketing and marketing management, including an appointment in 2003 as vice president, marketing and strategy, IBM Systems Group. John received a BS in Economics and Finance from Lehigh University and past member of its Advisory Board. He also was the past Chair of the Board of Governors of Fairfield Preparatory School in Fairfield, Connecticut. John is a Director of ePlus, a NASDAQ listed company that provides information management and technology solutions to its clients.

Pär leads the build-out of Strategy services for the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector, as a partner in KPMG’s advisory services team. He advises corporate- and private equity clients on strategies to drive growth, increase profitability and transform business models.

He has 20 years of experience with transforming leading technology and telecommunications companies globally, by helping the C-suite, shape strategies and execute strategic initiatives to accelerate growth, improve operations, and build key capabilities.

Pär joined KPMG from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President for global strategy, business development, and operations for Cisco Global Services. He was at the center of Cisco’s service transformation, leading strategy, portfolio, planning, M&A integration, and business operations to improve efficiency and capture new growth opportunities in technical and professional services, analytics, cloud and security.

Prior, he spent 17 years with McKinsey & Company, where he served leading technology and telecommunications clients in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia as a senior partner in the technology and telecommunications practice, while co-leading the global sales and channel service line and a majority of McKinsey’s training programs globally.

He is a former systems engineer for the European Space Agency, with a background in satellite communications, space applications for disaster mitigation, and the civil use of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Roland John, leader of the North American B2B Marketing & Sales Practice, works closely with clients to help them provide both low-cost support for customer needs and go-to-market strategies that build customer relationships.

Drawing on a deep understanding of customer economics, Roland has worked with clients to redesign their customer interaction models, including their direct-sales forces, inside sales teams, and third-party channels. He has helped clients segment customers and develop key-account management approaches in multiple industries, including chemicals, building products, and financial institutions. He has also helped develop higher-performing sales forces for clients in the hospitality, chemicals, and building products industries.