Prith Banerjee

Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee (born 1960) is an Indian

American academic and computer scientist and is Prith Banerjee
currently the Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS and
board member at Cray and CUBIC. Previously, he was
a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry where he was
responsible for IOT and Digital Transformation
Advisory Services within the Global Industrial
Practice.[1] Before that he was the Executive Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider
Prith Banerjee
Electric.[2] [3] He was formerly [4] a senior vice
president of research at Hewlett Packard and director Born Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee
[5]
of HP Labs. Previously he was the Chief Technology Occupation Chief Technology Officer Ansys
Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB Group.[6]
He was also the Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture.[1][7] Prith started his early
career in academia as a Professor at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University.

Early life and career

Born in Khartoum, Sudan, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1982 respectively, and his B.Tech degree in Electronics and
Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1981.

Banerjee began his career in academia, in which he served 22 years. After he became a professor of
electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern, it frustrated him that while his graduate students
and himself were developing technologies they weren't having much success at getting others to use these
technologies. This frustration with the lack of transfer from academia to the consumer is what motivated
Banerjee to found AccelChip Inc. While on leave from Northwestern University (2000 to 2002),
Banerjee, with the help of his team of graduate students, started AccelChip Inc., a developer of products
and services for electronic design automation.[8]

He served at AccelChip Inc. as president and CEO, raising $2.3 million in financing, helping the
company build its first product and guiding the company's growth to 25 employees and $800,000 in
revenues. After leaving the helm of AccelChip, he continued to guide the company as a consultant in his
role of chief scientist. AccelChip Inc. was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006.[9]

He then founded BINACHIP. Inc., which like AccelChip Inc, develops products and services in electronic
design automation. He served at BINACHP as chairman and chief scientist.[9]

Additionally, Banerjee has served on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Ambit
Design Systems, Atrenta and Calypto Design Systems.[9] Banerjee has published approximately 350
papers in the areas of VLSI computer aided design, parallel computing, and compilers. He has also
authored a book, Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD and served as associate editor of four journals.
Additionally he has served at more than 50 conferences in the capacity of program chair, general chair,
and program committee member.[9]

HP role
Banerjee joined HP in 2007. As the senior vice president of research at Hewlett Packard, Banerjee helped
develop technical strategies for the company. He also headed up HP Labs, the company's central research
organization, which had seven locations worldwide.[9]

Under him, Hewlett-Packard's laboratories had placed larger bets on fewer projects, and have
systematically sought outside ideas.[10] He has dismissed the cast-offs as interesting science projects and
championed the survivors as big bets with the most commercial potential.[11] He led a group of 500
researchers, whose objective was to innovate five to 15 years beyond the focus of the rest of the
company's 30,000 R&D engineers.

Banerjee believes in having locations for research organizations in various locations around the world
(currently HP Labs has seven locations, including India, Russia, China and Israel) – not for access to
cheap labor, but for ability to tap into innovation in local markets tailored to those local markets.[12]

Banerjee is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Cray, Inc. [13] and CUBIC systems. Formerly
he has served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the United States
National Academies.[14]

ABB's Chief Technology Officer

As on April 5, 2012 ABB Group announced [6] appointing Banerjee to the ABB Executive Committee as
CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In this role, he headed up the technology directions for both corporate
and divisional technology which includes more than 8000 scientists and engineers in seven ABB
Research Centers around the world.[7]

Accenture's Managing Director of Global Technology R&D

As on June 5, 2013 Accenture announced [1] appointing Banerjee to as Managing Director of Global
Technology R&D. In his new role, he oversees the Accenture Technology Labs, the global technology
R&D organization within Accenture which explores new and emerging technologies, and directs
Accenture's annual Technology Vision research, which looks at the future of enterprise IT and makes
recommendations for how companies can take advantage of technology to improve their competitiveness,
operations and business results.

CTO at Schneider Electric

During September 1, 2015 to June 15, 2017, Prith Banerjee was an Executive Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. .[15] In this role he was responsible for driving innovation and
technology differentiation, and coordinating the R&D activities of the company across its five businesses
with 8,000 R&D personnel, and a 1.2 billion Euro R&D investment. Prith was in charge of accelerating
Schneider Electric's R&D throughput and of driving the Innovation and R&D Simplification Programs
under the Company Program “Schneider is On”. [3]

Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry

During June 15, 2017, to September 30, 2018, Prith Banerjee was a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry.
In this role he is responsible for IoT and Digital Transformation Advisory Services within the Global
Industrial Practice.[1]

CTO at Ansys
As of October 1, 2018, Prith Banerjee became a Chief Technology Officer at Ansys. In this role he is
responsible for driving the long-term technology strategy of the company in areas such as high-
performance computing, AI/machine learning, cloud and platforms, and digital engineering. [16]

Awards and honors

He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2000),[17] the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (1995)[18] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(2005).[19][20]

In 1996, he received the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering
Education.[21] In 2000, the IEEE Computer Society honored him with the Taylor L. Booth Education
Award.[22]

Previous awards include: the University Scholar award from the University of Illinois (1993), the Senior
Xerox Research Award (1992), the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science
Foundation (1987),[23] the IBM Young Faculty Development Award (1986), and the President of India
Gold Medal from the IIT, Kharagpur (1981).

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External links
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