International expertise consulting {and professional} companies agency Accenture has appointed former McKinsey & Firm associate Pradeep Prabhala to steer its India Market Unit from 1 September 2026.

Prabhala will work with shoppers in India to make use of knowledge and AI to speed up progress, enhance productiveness and construct extra agile, future-ready companies.

He may even help international organisations in constructing International Functionality Centres, or GCCs, which Accenture described as engines of innovation, transformation and resilience.

“India is a strategic marketplace for Accenture, and we’re centered on accelerating progress right here,” mentioned Arundhati Chakraborty, Accenture’s international lead for finance and GCCs and govt sponsor for the India Market Unit.

“As shoppers deepen their give attention to technology-led reinvention and unlocking new worth from knowledge and AI, we see an amazing alternative to assist them lead. Pradeep’s intensive expertise throughout industries and international markets makes him ideally positioned to drive this progress, and we’re thrilled to welcome him to Accenture,” she mentioned.

Prabhala has greater than twenty years of expertise advising international organisations on progress and enterprise transformation, in response to the corporate.

His work has coated AI, digital expertise, industrial excellence, supply-chain transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability.

At McKinsey, he led the agency’s client sector in India and its agriculture enterprise throughout Asia.

Earlier than becoming a member of McKinsey, he spent almost a decade at Monitor Deloitte, working with shoppers throughout a number of markets on progress, enlargement and the event of recent companies.

He started his profession at Hindustan Unilever, the place he was a part of the founding staff that established the corporate’s fashionable commerce enterprise in India.

Accenture mentioned Prabhala was additionally an early-stage investor in AI, enterprise software program and deep-technology corporations in India and the US.

The corporate mentioned he was an incoming Rockefeller Basis Bellagio Fellow and Salzburg Fellow.