Biography

Piotr Pikul is a Partner in McKinsey & Company Toronto office. He is the one of McKinsey global leaders for Capital Excellence practice. Piotr leads McKinsey global Project Development & Value Improvement (pre-construction) service line for major capital projects and Capital Excellence - Metals & Mining domain for North America. His experience includes large and small capital projects in mining across commodities: iron ore, copper, gold, nickel, bauxite, manganese, potash, phosphate, steel in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. Some of Piotr’s recent work included leading project value improvement efforts and project business case and concept study reviews for a number of mining players around the world including South East Asia, Middle East, South America, Europe and North America delivering combined more than $2B in NPV improvements, leading multi-year value assurance partnerships on copper and gold mines in LATAM and supporting several mines during commissioning, ramp up and operational readiness. Piotr has written extensively on capital projects in metals and mining. These include a perspective on mining feasibility studies https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/optimizing-mining-feasibility-studies-the-100-billion-opportunity, a view on how to build mining capex projects and avoiding mistakes of the past https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/avoiding-mistakes-of-the-past-a-ceos-checklist-in-a-commodity-upswing and an interview with on building mines on time and budget http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/interview-building-mines-on-budget/ Prior to joining McKinsey, Piotr studied economics and European studies at University of Economics in Poznan, Poland and University of Exeter, UK. He also holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL