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Kavitha Prabhakar
Principal | Deloitte Consulting LLP
US Consulting Core Business Operations Leader
Kavitha is a national managing principal for Deloitte Consulting LLP and leader of Deloitte’s US AI & Engineering portfolio of offerings that includes Industry Solutions, AI & Data, Engineering as a Service, and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. Through this work, the portfolio helps clients navigate dynamic and disruptive markets, drive product and service innovation, improve financial performance, and accelerate speed to market.
With more than 25 years at Deloitte, Kavitha has led many technology-focused teams and client projects across a variety of industries, focusing specifically on financial services. Working with a multitude of public and private sector clients, she has led client projects centered on operations process improvements, data management implementations, investment plans, engineering deployments, and service excellence programs. Kavitha especially enjoys the technology transformation work that intersects software engineering with the rapidly evolving capabilities of AI and Generative AI technologies.
Kavitha co-leads the Executive Women in Technology initiative for Deloitte’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Program. She serves on the Board of Girls Who Code and has led various programs for financial services including 100 Wise Women and Women on Wall Street. Kavitha has been recognized as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen and as Crain’s Notable Minorities in Accounting, Consulting, & Law. She additionally received the 2023 Ascend A-List Award for her work in supporting Pan-Asian professionals.
Kavitha has a MS in Computer Science and MBA with concentrations in strategy and finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York, Buffalo.