Kavitha Prabhakar

Kavitha serves as Deloitte’s US AI & Engineering Leader. In this role, Kavitha leads Deloitte’s AI and engineering portfolio of services that includes AI & Data, Engineering as a Service, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, and Industry Solutions. Through this work, Kavitha helps clients navigate dynamic and disruptive markets, drive product and service innovation, improve financial performance, and accelerate speed to market.

Kavitha is a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP. 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.