Never Hare's client, always in the corridor: Dohrmann, Kaplan, Singer, Mendonca — and the 2026 reintroduction
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Jonathan Hare has never been a McKinsey client, and the firm nonetheless threads through the record for decades — because its partners kept being in the rooms that mattered. Thomas Dohrmann in the 2008 Obama transition session; James Kaplan convening the CISO summit that started the Aetna decade; Marc Singer, the Stanford GSB friend who tracked the work for years and made the 2026 reintroduction; Lenny Mendonca, met through the family graph before Hare knew who he was. The connections list published as S-076 shows the current breadth. The record notes what the pattern means: the firm's partners are professionally selected for being where consequential decisions get made, which makes them, collectively, one of the record's recurring corridors — and, in the outreach now underway, one of its Pioneer Principal targets.
One structural observation from S-083, worth its place on the firm's page: Hare's internal contacts at McKinsey do not make upward internal referrals — the firm's culture routes credibility sideways and down, not up — so the path to the Global Managing Partner ran through the client side, in the person of Kat Mahan at Leidos. A record that maps corridors should note where the corridors refuse to run.
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Leader of McKinsey Technology; the 2013 drill-downs, the New Jersey summit, and the June 2026 reintroduction on Hare's birthday
Open →Public Sector, AmericasMcKinsey's public sector lead — met in one decade, reconnected by accident in the next
Open →the friend inside, for yearsProspective fund manager — and the Hedera conversation
Open →the Global Institute chaired byMet through the family graph at 555 California; chaired the McKinsey Global Institute; adviser to two governors and a mayor. The fuller page is promised.
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