Accenture announced that effective July 1, Rajendra Prasad will become Accenture’s chief information and asset engineering officer, a new role that oversees all internal technology development and support for Accenture systems and Accenture assets for clients. Penelope Prett to Become Global Lead for Accenture’s Workday Business Group. A respected leader with more than 28 years of industry experience, Prasad has focused on differentiating Accenture by driving automation and innovation across the IT lifecycle, bringing new solutions, and maximizing leverage of ecosystem partners and capabilities to clients.

He will report to Sharma. Prett succeeds Gloria Samuels in the role of global lead for Accenture's Workday Business Group. In addition to being a dynamic and innovative CIO, Prett possesses an extensive background in technology, consulting, and outsourcing services across multiple industries.

She successfully led the implementation of Workday to the company's more than 700,000 people, one of the largest Workday deployments in the world. Prett will report to Emma McGuigan. Samuels will retire on August 14 after an outstanding career at Accenture during which time she was instrumental in driving Accenture's partnership with Workday and elevating it to new heights.

This includes signing a first-ever co-innovation agreement with Workday to expand industry financials offerings for clients.