Based in Toronto, Carmen is a member of Egon Zehnder’s CFO and services practices, advising clients on leadership challenges and executive recruitment. Carmen Steinberg draws on deep expertise in consumer digital businesses, both as an advisor and as an operator. Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Carmen was in management consulting and operational roles. Most recently, she was in the Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice at McKinsey & Co., where her client work focused on multi-lever growth transformations, primarily in the consumer retail and tech sectors. Before McKinsey, she held a number of leadership positions in digital marketing, including leading e-commerce for the design furniture company Vitra and as CMO for an e-commerce start-up in Berlin. Carmen holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She is originally from Peru, where she spent the first years of her life before her family immigrated to Canada. After completing her Honours BA in Political Science at McMaster University, Carmen moved to Vienna for her Masters and went on to live in London, Berlin and Frankfurt before coming back to Toronto. She now lives in the city with her husband and two young children.