Chris Howarth is chief executive officer of Avanade, the technology services joint venture formed by Accenture and Microsoft, which operates in twenty six countries with more than sixty thousand professionals.
Howarth leads a business built specifically around the Microsoft technology stack, selling cloud, data, business applications, digital experience and managed services work to enterprise clients. He announced the appointment of Ben Beath as chief artificial intelligence officer, setting out the firm's intention to lead through its own use of the technology as well as through client advice.
Career History
- Chief Executive Officer, Avanade
What Chris Howarth brings to Avanade: leadership of a global integrator through the transition from cloud migration work to artificial intelligence deployment, at a moment when client spending patterns are changing quickly.
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