Originally Published by Accenture. Accenture managing director Caroline Gayle has been named 2019’s Mentor of the Year by Women in Communications and Technology (WCT). Gayle is Technology lead in Accenture’s Financial Services practice in Canada and the company’s managing director sponsor for Corporate Citizenship in Canada. She has been mentoring…

Originally Published by Accenture. Caspar Schlickum to lead Asia Pacific region; Peter Kolster Hansen to lead Next-Generation Content Services. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded the worldwide leadership team of Accenture Interactive Operations with the hiring of Caspar Schlickum as regional managing director for Asia Pacific (APAC) and Peter Kolster Hansen…

Originally Published Accenture. Accenture has appointed Dr. Athina Kanioura chief analytics officer and global lead of Accenture Applied Intelligence, effective immediately. Dr. Kanioura succeeds Narendra Mulani who will retire from the company. Dr. Kanioura joined Accenture in 2005. An accomplished innovator and data scientist, she was a founding member of…

Originally Published by Accenture. With great sadness, Accenture (NYSE:ACN) announces that Pierre Nanterme, former chairman and CEO of Accenture, passed away today. The company extends its sincerest condolences to his family in this difficult time and expresses its enduring gratitude for his decades of leadership and inspiration. “We are deeply…

Originally Published by Accenture. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Knowledgent, a data intelligence company. The acquisition expands Accenture’s data management capabilities, helping companies become digital and intelligent by gaining deep insights into their businesses and customers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Knowledgent is now part…

Originally Published by Accenture. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced that effective immediately, Chairman and CEO Pierre Nanterme has stepped down for health reasons that were previously disclosed in July 2016. Accenture’s Board of Directors appointed David Rowland, who has been Accenture’s chief financial officer, to become interim chief executive officer, and…

Originally Published by Accenture. Accenture today opened a new innovation hub in Atlanta as a destination where clients can co-innovate with their Accenture teams to ideate, rapidly prototype and then scale innovative products and services for the digital economy. Spanning 30,000 square feet of space, the innovation hub is located…

Originally Published by Accenture. Nearly two-thirds of consumers globally (63 percent) prefer to buy goods and services from companies that stand for a shared purpose that reflects their personal values and beliefs, and are ditching those that don’t, according to new research from Accenture. The fourteenth annual Accenture Strategy Global…

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has named 762 people to managing director and senior managing director, including a record number of women. “Our new managing directors and senior managing directors truly embody what it means to be leaders at Accenture,” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s chairman and CEO. “With their dedication to our…

Originally Published by Accenture. Most large banks said that providing Open Banking services for their commercial clients is a key strategic initiative in their digital transformation programs, and many expect Open Banking to help them achieve double-digit revenue growth, according to a global research report by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Open…