J Tucker Bailey

Tucker helps clients address digital, advanced analytics, and technology strategy issues. Focusing principally on supporting public and private-sector clients with strategic challenges related to innovation, security, digital risk management, public safety, and digital enablement, Tucker empowers clients on a broad range of industries to improve strategy and better achieve their missions. An expert on cybersecurity, Tucker coleads McKinsey’s digital risk work globally. In this role, he coordinates McKinsey’s client service on cybersecurity issues, convenes several chief information security officer roundtables, and drives McKinsey’s research agenda on the topic. In addition to his core client work, Tucker is a frequent contributor to our publications and is the coauthor of the book Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business (Wiley, 2015). Before joining McKinsey, Tucker served as a US naval officer and a special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He also cofounded Harbinger Technologies, a security technology company that was acquired by Acxiom Corporation. Harvard University MBA, management Duke University BSE, political science and civil engineering