GSA and McKinsey & Company Webinar
Scaling AI Inference: Implications for Semiconductors
Speakers

Yvonne Ferrier
Associate Partner, Semiconductor Practice
McKinsey & Company
Yvonne Ferrier is an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Semiconductor Practice, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She advises leading semiconductor, data center, and advanced technology companies on growth strategy, revenue acceleration, customer engagement, and new business creation across the compute value chain.
Yvonne has extensive experience helping clients navigate some of the most consequential shifts shaping the industry today, including AI (Cloud, Edge, Physical) and the underlying data center infrastructure. Her work has included shaping data center entry strategies for global semiconductor and industrial leaders and growth strategies for AI infrastructure players.
Yvonne is leading McKinsey’s thinking on the Future of Compute and is also a contributor to McKinsey’s Technology Outlook, one of the firm’s most widely read annual publications on frontier technologies.
Before joining McKinsey, Yvonne conducted research at NASA Ames Research Center’s Intelligent Systems Division. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Yvonne Ferrier
Associate Partner, Semiconductor Practice
McKinsey & Company

Pranjali Kumar
Engagement Manager, Data Center Practice
McKinsey & Company
Pranjali Kumar is an Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Data Center Practice, based in Seattle. Pranjali’s work focuses on growth strategy, new business building, and technology investment across the AI infrastructure value chain. She advises hyperscalers, AI infrastructure providers, semiconductor companies, and investors on data center strategy, compute economics, and supply chain resilience.
Before McKinsey, Pranjali spent three years as a software engineer at Société Générale. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Pranjali Kumar
Engagement Manager, Data Center Practice
McKinsey & Company