Suroor Rahimtoola
Kensington
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Deployment Lead (founding role)
Persona
02.2026 - Current
- Own deployment and scale-up of Persona across X strategic enterprise customers in the UK and Europe, acting as the primary post-sale operator from onboarding through production rollout
- Lead complex implementations across regulated and high-risk use cases, coordinating directly with customer executives and Persona’s product, engineering, and sales teams
- Translate customer requirements into scalable operating and product insights, supporting Persona’s European expansion motion
Associate
McKinsey & Company
London
05.2022 - 01.2026
- Progressed through four promotions in under four years, reflecting top-tier performance and repeatedly staffed above level, leading critical workstreams and steering senior client stakeholders
- Led and executed commercial and investment due diligence across the software, energy, and hard-tech sectors, including bottom-up market sizing, competitive landscape analysis, and performance benchmarking
- Developed end-to-end investment theses for venture creation and scale-up opportunities in advanced materials, climate infrastructure, and energy transition technologies
- Built detailed financial models to assess ROI, unit economics, and monetisation pathways for novel technology assets (e.g. alternative cement, electrolysers, and nuclear fusion adjacencies
- Provided exceptional customer service, resolving queries promptly to maintain high satisfaction levels
- Worked directly with founders, C-suite executives, and investors to translate strategy into actionable execution plansacross go-to-market, operating model, and financing
- Core contributor to McKinsey’s Green Business Building (GBB) practice in the UK, supporting client cultivation, venture incubation, and internal knowledge development
- Trusted mentor to junior colleagues; regularly staffed on high-stakes, partner-led engagements requiring judgement under ambiguity
Associate, Energy
EY (Ernst & Young)
London
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Analysed and tested key financial statement accounts for marketing leading commodity trading companies, directly liaising with senior management to highlight internal deficiencies of control reliance
- Identified major risks posed for energy companies, consistently keeping up to date with FCA regulatory requirements
- Performed detailed audit procedures including reviewing client documentation and transactions to conduct analytical audit tests to support the audit opinion
- Peer group representative for associates within the Energy department working directly with partners to help address knowledge and skill gap for new graduates and acting as a medium of communication between the graduates and senior management
Education
MSc - Management
Imperial College Business School
08.2020
Summer School -
Harvard University
07.2014
BA (Hons) - Land Economy
University of Cambridge
06.2019
ICAS certificate level -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
03.2022
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Valuation techniques
- Strategic planning
- Problem solving
- Stakeholder engagement
- MS Office Suite
- Vibe Coding
Accomplishments
- Voted as 2nd and 16th most influential woman at Cambridge University and the UK respectively by Tab 2017
- Youngest person listed by Hello! Pakistan as the top 100 people in Pakistan 2016
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Urdu
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Deployment Lead (founding role)
Persona
02.2026 - Current
Associate
McKinsey & Company
05.2022 - 01.2026
Associate, Energy
EY (Ernst & Young)
09.2020 - 03.2022
MSc - Management
Imperial College Business School
Summer School -
Harvard University
BA (Hons) - Land Economy
University of Cambridge
ICAS certificate level -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)