Keynote Speaker Confirmed For College Careers Insights Event 2025

Comments Head of Careers, Jacqui Quinney, "We are absolutely delighted to have Tunde on board as our keynote speaker and have no doubt that he will set the bar very high for the day. He has forged an impressive career in global management consultancy, working at the most senior level with a host of clients and his presentation promises to be one not to miss."

After leaving Princethorpe in 1998, Princethorpe Shield winner, Tunde studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management at Imperial College. He is currently a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Co in London, a global management consultancy that advises Private, Public and Social sector institutions on a range of issues. Tunde is the managing partner for McKinsey’s UK, Ireland and Israel offices and also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s global board of directors. Prior to this role he was the firm’s Global Chief Technology and Platform Officer, responsible for ensuring the cyber and operational resilience of McKinsey’s client and colleague-facing technology assets across the world.

In his client work, he works with a range of financial services, private equity, real estate, consumer facing and public sector institutions. He has also published on a range of research topics, including on the evolving UK corporate landscape and the impact of the UK arts sector (in collaboration with 70+ leading UK arts institutions).

Outside McKinsey, Tunde is a trustee of Oxfam, a not-for-profit organisation that fights against poverty, a member of Imperial College London’s Council, and a board member of Innovate UK, the United Kingdom’s commercial innovation agency. He has also been recently appointed to the Government’s Industrial Strategy Advisory Council of Business Leaders to offer independent advice as it develops its industrial growth ambitions.

The biennial Careers Insights Event is open to Year 10 to Sixth Form pupils and their parents. It provides a ‘one stop careers shop’ with speakers representing a wide range of careers and professions, along with universities on hand to offer advice and guidance.

Careers Insights will run from 9.30am to 1.00pm and, as well as the keynote speech, attendees will be able to attend up to four careers or university related workshops depending on their personal interests.

Mrs Quinney continues, "Registrations will open in mid-February and with over 50 speakers there will be plenty to interest and inform our pupils and their parents."