Dr. Prashanth H. Southekal

Dr. Prashanth H. Southekal Professor, Consultant and Author. He is the founder and Managing Principal of DBP Institute, a data and analytics consulting, research, and education firm based in Calgary, Canada. He has consulted for over 80 organizations including P&G, GE, Shell, Apple, FedEx, McDonalds, 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. His second book, “Analytics Best Practices” was ranked #1 analytics books of all time in May 2022 by BookAuthority. He serves on the Editorial Board of MIT CDOIQ Symposium, Advisory board member at BGV (Benhamou Global Ventures), and is a Data and Analytics Advisor at Grihasoft (India), Illumex (Israel), and Astral Insights (US). Apart from his consulting and advisory pursuits, he has trained over 3,500 professionals worldwide in Data and Analytics, and is a keynote speaker at various international conferences. Dr. Southekal is also an award winning 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), an MBA from Kellogg School of Management (US), and a ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors (CA). He lives between Calgary (CA) and Madrid (ES).