About Dr. Prashanth Southekal

Dr. Prashanth Southekal is the Managing Principal of DBP Institute (www.dbp-institute.com), Data and Analytics consulting, research and education firm. He is a Consultant, Author, and Professor. He has worked consulted for over 80 organizations including P&G, GE, Shell, Apple, FedEx, and SAP. Dr. Southekal is the author of two books — “Data for Business Performance” and “Analytics Best Practices” — and writes regularly on data, analytics, and machine learning in Forbes.com, FP&A Trends, and CFO.University. His second book, ANALYTICS BEST PRACTICES was ranked #1 analytics books of all time in May 2022 by BookAuthority. He is an Advisory board member at BGV (Benhamou Global Ventures) a Silicon Valley-based (Menlo Park) early-stage venture capital firm focused on global Enterprise 4.0 technology innovation and a Data and Analytics Advisor at Evalueserve (CH), Grihasoft (IN), uArrow (SG), Astral Insights (US) and Miles Education (IN). He advises these companies on product roadmap, services offering, market dynamics, GTM, and other strategic and operational decisions. Apart from his consulting and advisory pursuits, he has trained over 3,000 professionals worldwide in Data and Analytics. Dr. Southekal is also an Adjunct Professor of Data and Analytics at IE Business School (Madrid, Spain) and CDO Magazine included him in the top 75 global academic data leaders of 2022.  He holds a Ph.D. from ESC Lille (FR) and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management (US). He lives in Calgary, Canada with his wife, two children, and a high-energy Goldendoodle dog. Outside work, he loves juggling and cricket.