Accenture changes growth model, names Manish Sharma as chief services officer

Accenture (ACN) 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 and Asia Pacific-and go to market by industry. John Walsh, Accenture’s current global COO, will become CEO of the Americas, succeeding Sharma. Kate Hogan, the current COO of the Americas, will become the global COO, succeeding Walsh. 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. 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.