Capabilities:
Artificial IntelligenceKarthik Narain
Biography
Karthik Narain is the Group Chief Executive of Technology at Accenture, where he oversees cloud, data and AI, enterprise and industry technologies and security, and technology ecosystem partnerships and its Advanced Technology Centers. As a member of the Global Management Committee and Chair of the Board of Avanade, Accenture’s joint venture with Microsoft, Narain plays a key role in steering the company’s technological direction.
Before assuming his current role, Narain led Accenture Cloud First and its data and AI business, where he helped clients move, shape and operate their businesses in the cloud. Under his leadership, cloud-certified talent has tripled in the past three years. He has extended the company’s leadership with ecosystem partners and driven substantial investments in solutions, acquisitions, and talent to keep Accenture at the forefront of the industry.
Most recently, Narain helped define Accenture’s approach to generative AI through investments in its Generative AI Center of Excellence. With 24 years of experience across various industry sectors, including financial services, high tech, and software and platforms, he has driven many strategic and innovative programs. Narain previously led Accenture Technology in North America, helping guide Global 2000 brands in using the cloud and other technologies to transform their businesses.
Firm Overview
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. It is a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and Accenture is one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. The company combines its strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Its broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song, together with its culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable it to help clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. Accenture measures its success by the 360° value it creates for its clients, employees, shareholders, partners, and communities.