Penelope Prett

CIO at Accenture

Penelope Prett serves as the CIO, Senior Managing Director, and Global Lead for the Workday Business Group at Accenture. With an illustrious career spanning over 30 years at Accenture, she brings extensive leadership experience across client, technology, and industry domains. Her role as the Chief Information Data and Analytics Officer witnessed the successful implementation of Workday across Accenture's global workforce, comprising over 700,000 employees across 120 countries, marking one of the world's largest deployments of Workday.

Throughout her tenure, Penelope has held diverse leadership roles, overseeing significant transformation programs, sales, alliances, and quality and risk management in Accenture Technology. She has cultivated profound relationships with platform and industry ecosystem partners, contributing to Accenture's continuous growth and innovation.

Beyond her professional pursuits, Penelope actively engages in fostering inclusion and diversity initiatives at Accenture, advocating for LGBTQIA+ initiatives and integrating non-traditional talent, including veterans, into the workforce.

She firmly believes in the symbiotic relationship between data and technology, emphasizing the power of data in driving business performance. Penelope's primary focus is empowering the company to harness data effectively, enabling business domains to make informed decisions using robust data capabilities. Outside work, she finds solace in her passions for fly fishing, cooking, and spending quality time with her husband in Atlanta, her cherished hometown.