Mayank Prakash

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Mayank Prakash
NationalityBritish
EducationBachelor's Engineering Degree
Master's in Business Administration (Finance)
Alma mater Manchester Business School
Singularity University
Wharton Business School
Employer(s) Evelyn Partners
Uber
Known forDigital Transformation
Board member ofUber
BCS
Evelyn Partners Fund Solutions Ltd
Department for Work and Pensions
Tech Partnership
AwardsUK Top Technologist
Wharton Fellow
CIO of the Year

Mayank Prakash (born 1973) is a businessman based in the United Kingdom. Computer Weekly magazine described him as "the most influential person in UK IT" in their 2017 awards. [1]

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Qualifications

Mayank Prakash holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, [2] is a Wharton Fellow and an alumnus of Singularity University.

Career History

Mayank Prakash started his career as a graduate engineer trainee at the Hewlett-Packard. He worked in the HCL JV starting with the entrepreneurial Frontline Solutions start-up venture and was soon after selected to join the senior management trainee programme and deputed to incubate ERP implementation capabilities working with the Big Four accounting firms at HCL Tech. [3] [ failed verification ]

Prakash was the international CIO of Avaya, then the group CIO of iSoft and later the CIO of Sage Group in UK. [4] Prakash was hired by Morgan Stanley to lead the tech and data team of Morgan Stanley Wealth and Asset Management and as director of Morgan Stanley Advantage Services. [5]

In 2014, Prakash left Morgan Stanley to join the Department for Work and Pensions as the director general in charge of technology, replacing Andy Nelson. [6] In this role, Prakash combines his predecessor's job as CIO with business transformation, security and data responsibilities, and worked directly for Sir Robert Devereux. [7]

Subsequently, he joined FTSE100 Centrica as the chief consumer digital and information officer. [8]

Current roles

Prakash joined the board of Uber as a non-executive director. [9]

As Centrica sold its North American business, Prakash was head hunted to join UK's largest wealth and professional services group Evelyn Partners managing £57bn assets as the group CTO and then promoted to become the group chief operations officer. Prakash is also a director on the board of UK's fastest growing £10bn funding business Evelyn Partners Fund Solutions Limited. [10]

He was selected as the deputy president of the British Computer Society in 2021 and its president in 2022. The British Computer Society is the Chartered Institute for Technology. Prakash is the chair of the board and also serves on the nominations and remuneration committee of the Trustee Board. [11]

Prakash is also the chair of PIMFA WealthTech Advisory Council. [12]

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  2. ↑ "MBS |Manchester Business School". www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk.
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  5. ↑ "Morgan Stanley new MDs". Morgan Stanley . Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  6. ↑ "Andy Nelson, UK Government CIO replaced by Mayank Prakash".
  7. ↑ "DWP replaces CIO Andy Nelson with director general for technology". ComputerworldUK. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  8. ↑ "Unicorn thinking". www.centrica.com.
  9. ↑ "Uber's fully electric option expands to all of London". Uber Newsroom. April 5, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Warburg Pincus hires FTSE 100 stalwart as Group COO".
  11. ↑ "Mayank Prakash announced as President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT | BCS". www.bcs.org.
  12. ↑ "Mayank Prakash to chair tech council for wealth industry managing 1.6 Trillion Pounds |PIMFA". www.pimfa.co.uk.
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