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Prith Banerjee is Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry. In this role he is responsible for IOT and Digital Transformation Advisory Services in the Global Industrial Practice. Previously he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. Formerly, he was Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture. Earlier, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB. Earlier, he was senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs. Formerly, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of ECE at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was professor of ECE at the University of Illinois.In 2000, he founded AccelChip which was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006. During 2005-2011, he was founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of BINACHIP.His research interests are in electronic design automation, and parallel computing, and he is the author of about 350 research papers. He has also supervised 37 Ph.D. students.Banerjee currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cray and the MSB Board of the International Electrotechnical Consortium. In the past, he has served on board for the Anita Borg Institute, the Computer Science Board of the National Academy of Engineering and the Technical Advisory Boards of Ambit, Atrenta , Calypto, and Cypress.He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009.He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE and a recipient of the 1996 ASEE Terman Award and the 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a B.Tech. (President's Gold Medalist) in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.