About

London · Technology × Startups × Business

I started out building, writing code and shipping at Terra, a YC health startup, where I went from zero to a shipped AI product in months. That experience taught me what it takes to move fast, and having a shiny product is not everything

From there I moved into McKinsey's Digital practice, where I work with large organisations from strategy to implementation: not just ideating and building AI, but deploying it at scale in environments where organisational complexity is the real constraint (and politics of course)

Nowadays there are too much hype and not enough actual impact. Everyone's building. Few are selling. Almost no one's creating lasting value

Experience

McKinsey & Company

2024 – present

Business Analyst · Mckinsey Digital

  • Agentic AI - Analytics - Growth Strategy - Transformations

Terra

2023

Full Stack Software Engineer · YC W21

  • Built AI health coach from scratch - Ranked Top 10 on Product Hunt at launch

Education

Imperial College London

2020 – 2024

MEng Electronic and Information Engineering · First Class Honours

Dean's List (Top 10%) - (Full Scholarship) Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence.

  • Thesis: Neural ODEs for Visual-Inertial Odometry - awarded distinguished thesis (85%).

Interests

startups · AI · technology · growth strategy · sports

Contact

The best way to reach me is via LinkedIn, GitHub, or contact@marco-chan.com. I'm occasionally open to interesting conversations about AI products, early-stage ventures, or unusual problems.