SPEAKERS

November 16-18, 2026

Scottsdale, AZ

Fairmont Scottsdale Princess

Rushan Guan

Partner at McKinsey & Company

Rushan is a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the firm's Apparel, Fashion & Luxury practice, leading the Apparel sector and Merchandising service line in North America. Rushan brings extensive experience advising leading apparel brands and fashion specialty retailers on commercial strategy, growth, and transformations. In this capacity, Rushan focuses on helping brands and retailers unlock profitable growth through enhanced merchandising capabilities, including AI and analytics-driven optimization and operating model transformations across merchandising, planning, and inventory management. Rushan is also a lead author on McKinsey’s annual State of Fashion report in partnership with Business of Fashion. 

Prior to joining McKinsey, Rushan worked in North American eCommerce merchandising and planning at Coach (now part of Tapestry). Rushan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Economics from Columbia University.