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September 19, 2023
Seattle-based Avanade appointed Karthik Narain, Accenture's group chief executive, technology, as chair of its board of directors. Karthik succeeds Emma McGuigan, Accenture's global lead, enterprise & industry technologies, who is leaving the Avanade board after four years in the role. Narain joined Accenture in 2015. Prior to becoming group chief executive, he led Accenture Cloud First and was responsible for the company's Data and AI business and growth strategy. He oversees Accenture capabilities, acquisitions, talent, investments and ecosystem partnerships in public and hybrid cloud, data & AI and software engineering. Narain is also a member of Accenture's Global Management Committee. Avanade is a provider of digital, cloud and advisory services across the Microsoft ecosystem. ​Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft.