J.C. is an Associate Partner in the Dallas office of McKinsey, which he joined full-time in 2018. He works on solving public sector operations problems with a focus on procurement and industrial base challenges and the U.S. Department of Defense. J.C. is also a member of the McKinsey Negotiations Institute, where he teaches executive courses on negotiations and advises clients on strategy.
Before joining McKinsey, J.C. spent the bulk of his career in sports, spanning roles from a graduate assistant coach of the men’s basketball team at Stanford to working on front office and team culture with an NBA team to the collective bargaining negotiations team at MLB.
J.C. earned his JD from Stanford Law School and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business after obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma.
He is married to Andi Fischer (also an OU and JCPenney alum and member of the McKinsey Dallas office), and has one son, newborn Cato. J.C. loves to shoot hoops and play pickup ball, golfs every weekend (often with Andi!), and cooks often, especially after building an outdoor kitchen and smoker setup for their home.
