Jon Garcia
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Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
Senior Partner
Washington, US
Profile Verified by The Marque
Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
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In Their Own Right
Biography
Jon Garcia is a Senior Partner at 26North Partners, a fully integrated, next-generation alternatives platform with more than $30B AUM. He also serves as the Head of the firm's Alpha Creation Team.
Jon previously served as a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and was the President & Founder of McKinsey’s RTS unit. RTS (“Reset – Transform – Sustain”) is a specialized group within McKinsey, dedicated to delivering large-scale, rapid, sustainable performance improvement, using a proven approach. Under Jon’s leadership, RTS partnered with organizations across industries and markets to execute more than a hundred highly complex, successful transformations and turnarounds over the last decade.
With more than 25 years at McKinsey, Jon’s personal experience included a wide variety of organizational settings, from market leaders facing disruption, to companies seeking a “good to great” performance lift, to fast-growing organizations building for scale. His clients represented a range of sectors, including industrials, financial institutions, consumer goods, business services, and healthcare, among others.
Before founding RTS, Jon led McKinsey’s principal investor practice and advised a set of leading alternative asset managers active in hedge funds, distressed investing, and private equity. From 1996 to 1998, Jon was a senior official in the Clinton Administration, where he led the reorganization of a $6bn portfolio of government loans made to bidders on mobile communications licenses. He started his career as an attorney at the law firm Paul | Weiss where he worked on a range of corporate and bankruptcy matters.
Jon serves as Chairman of McKinsey.org, the firm’s corporate foundation. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from Georgetown.
The Record
Background
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2023 — Present
Senior Partner
26North Partners
26North is a fully integrated, next-generation alternatives platform with more than $20 billion in assets under management.
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2010 — 2023
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. The firm works with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders.
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1995 — 2010
Various Roles
McKinsey & Company
Jon has held various roles at McKinsey & Company, including Director, Principal, and Consultant. McKinsey & Company is an international management consulting business which provides professional services to companies, governments, and other institutions.
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1993 — 1995
Associate
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Established in 1875, Paul | Weiss is a global law firm headquartered in New York. It represents some of the largest private and public companies, financial institutions and asset managers in the world.
In The News
Newsfeed
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13 April 2026 · Businesswire
26North Raises $5.9 Billion for Inaugural Private Equity Fund, Surpassing $4 Billion Target
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3 September 2024
Josh Harris’ 26North to Buy ArchKey in First Private Equity Deal
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6 September 2023 · PR Newswire
26North Announces Addition of Seven Partners, Launches Direct Lending Team
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28 October 2022 · CEO Magazine
The Hardest Climb: Jon Garcia
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Formative Years
Education
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Harvard Law School
JD
1990 — 1993
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London School of Economics
MSc, International Relations
1989 — 1990
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Georgetown University
AB
1986 — 1989
Areas Of Focus