Changes will enable Accenture to serve clients and technology ecosystem partners better and faster and create next waves of growth to benefit all stakeholders
Accenture announced changes to its growth model and its leadership, effective September 1, 2025.
Accenture has delivered on its strategy to be its clients’ reinvention partner of choice and to lead in Gen AI through its deeply skilled people and by bringing its clients multi-service solutions, including world-class, AI-enabled assets and platforms, as only Accenture can. These solutions are unique and deliver measurable value because Accenture has built scaled services in Strategy, Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations, deep industry and functional experience and unmatched technology ecosystem partnerships.
Now Accenture will bring all of these services together in a single, integrated business unit called Reinvention Services, under the leadership of Manish Sharma, Accenture’s current CEO of the Americas. Sharma will become Accenture’s first Chief Services Officer. As an integrated business unit, Reinvention Services will be able to create more leading solutions faster and embed data and AI more easily into its solutions and delivery.
The company will continue to manage its business through three geographic markets—the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia Pacific—and go to market by industry.
John Walsh, Accenture’s current global Chief Operating Officer, will become CEO of the Americas, succeeding Sharma. Kate Hogan, the current Chief Operating Officer of the Americas, will become the global Chief Operating Officer, succeeding Walsh.
“Today, our clients need more value faster, and Accenture is their reinvention partner of choice,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “These changes to our growth model will allow us to deliver that value and continue to scale our business by being an even stronger engine of reinvention that more rapidly delivers the power of Gen AI. We are writing the playbook for how to be the most AI-enabled, client-focused professional services company in the world and a great place to work for our people—our reinventors.”
Effective Sept. 1, 2025, the new integrated business unit will have the following leads, reporting to Sharma:
- Strategy will continue to be led by Muqsit Ashraf, Group Chief Executive—Strategy.
- Consulting will be led by Jason Dess, current lead of CFO and Enterprise Value, who will become Group Chief Executive—Consulting. Dess succeeds Jack Azagury, who has decided to leave Accenture to pursue other opportunities.
- Song will be led by Ndidi Oteh, currently Song’s lead in the Americas. (See prior announcement here.)
- Technology will be led by Rajendra Prasad, currently Accenture’s Chief Information and Asset Engineering Officer, who will become Group Chief Executive—Technology and Chief Technology Officer. Prasad succeeds Karthik Narain, who has decided to leave Accenture to pursue other opportunities.
- Operations will continue to be led by Arundhati Chakraborty, Group Chief Executive—Operations.
Additionally, Kate Clifford, currently CHRO of the Americas, will become the global Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer, succeeding Angela Beatty, who has decided to leave Accenture to pursue other opportunities.
“Each of these leaders will play a crucial role in realizing the promise of our new growth model,” said Sweet. “I am deeply grateful to Jack, Karthik and Angela for their outstanding contributions during their time at Accenture.”
