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30+ years of
transformation.
The work that makes AI possible.

Pritesh Gadhia has been at the forefront of every major technology wave from the pre-internet era through to AI — growing billion-dollar practices, rescuing stalled programmes, building high-performing teams and the leadership cultures that make change stick.

Available for advisory, board and senior leadership roles

Senior Managing Director · Accenture
2001 — Present
Oracle · Procter & Gamble · PricewaterhouseCoopers · Lotus
Pritesh Gadhia
30+
Years at the forefront of technology
100+
Client organisations served
$1bn+
Revenue businesses led
1,000+
FTE business units managed
9 yrs
Accenture UKI Board member

About

Every organisation I have worked with had the capability to transform. Most just needed someone to unlock it.

"Best Digital Executive I have ever met."

CEO · NHS-X

Most people who talk about digital transformation have advised on it. Pritesh has lived through every wave of it — from the first enterprise software deployments in the early 1990s, through the dot com era, the rise of digital, mobile and cloud, and now AI. That is not just longevity. It is a depth of pattern recognition that changes how you see problems, how you read organisations, and how quickly you know what needs to happen next.

A collaborative modern leader with a proven track record, putting clients and people first. A member of the Accenture UKI Board for nine years and Accenture's General Leadership Committee, he has grown every practice he has held over the last decade by more than 20%.

Outside the boardroom, Pritesh is a vocal advocate for men's mental health, raising over £20,000 for mental health charities through charity boxing. A speaker at MWC, The Drum, and The Marketing Society, he has been featured on CNBC, Campaign, and Management Today. He also sits on the Industry Advisory Board at Greenwich University.

Pritesh Gadhia in conversation with Sir Alex Ferguson

"On what it takes to build a team that performs under pressure, year after year" — in conversation with Sir Alex Ferguson

Pritesh Gadhia · On Stage

Where Transformation Really Happens

Technology is rarely the problem.
Leadership, culture and conviction are.

Great digital transformation is hard. Most organisations that have tried it quickly discover that the technology is rarely the problem. The real challenge is leadership alignment, getting the right foundations in place, and sustaining momentum through the difficult middle where most programmes quietly stall. Pritesh has spent more than 30 years helping organisations navigate exactly that. Fractured governance, misaligned data, change-resistant cultures — he has seen every version of it and knows how to fix it.

Every technology wave does not just change how organisations operate. It changes how people behave. Ecommerce created a new kind of buyer. Search engines made consumers researchers and critics overnight. Social media shifted trust from brands to peers. And now AI agents are beginning to do the choosing, comparing and deciding on behalf of the consumer entirely. The organisations that win in each era are never the ones that simply adopted the technology. They are the ones that understood how the technology was changing their customers, and redesigned the experience around the new behaviour.

But understanding the shift is only half the challenge. The gap between organisations that transform and those that don't is rarely about technology or budget. It is almost always about people, leadership and culture. The leaders who make it happen are not the ones who move fastest. They are the ones who build teams that can genuinely absorb new ways of working, connect technology to the moment customers actually feel the difference, and sustain that through the difficult middle where most programmes run out of conviction. That has always been Pritesh's approach, and it is as relevant now as it has ever been.

"The leaders who make it happen are not the ones who move fastest. They are the ones who build teams that can genuinely absorb new ways of working."

Pritesh Gadhia

Client portfolio & what they say

Retail & Consumer

Sainsbury'sBootsM&STescoArgosWH SmithNew LookKingfisherUnilever

Financial Services

NatWestHSBCAXAVirgin Money

Technology & Telecoms

GoogleVodafoneITVEtisalat

Automotive & Energy

JLRBP

Public Sector & Aviation

NHSSaudi Airlines

"Partnering with Accenture has been a truly transformational experience that helped to change us from the inside out."

CEO · Boots Ireland

"Pritesh played a pivotal role in turning the account around. His leadership was defined by empowering the right individuals, ensuring each person was positioned for success."

Client Programme Lead

"He fosters a culture of transparency, mutual respect and trust — confidence to address the elephants in the room, make mistakes and learn fast."

Senior MD · Accenture

"I'm really pleased that Pritesh is in the role. He has brought a really refreshing change in leadership style, which has been great and much needed."

Senior Leader · Accenture Song

"Pritesh has pulled together a really strong, really great leadership team."

Senior Leader · Accenture Song

Get in touch

Senior advisory,
board roles and
transformation leadership.

If the challenge is complex, that is where this conversation starts.

"Transformation is not a delivery problem.
It is a trust problem."