Bharath Prabhakaran Bharath Prabhakaran, with nearly 30 years of tech leadership experience, transitioned from a significant role at Oracle to become the VP and Chief Digital Officer at the University of Cincinnati. His career highlights include developing Oracle’s Fusion Cloud ERP platform and spearheading digital transformation efforts in higher education. At the University of Cincinnati, he oversees both traditional IT operations and advanced initiatives in data analytics and AI, supporting a large academic community.

• Bharath Prabhakaran has nearly 30 years of experience in tech leadership.
• He moved to the US in 1995 and earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• He worked at Razorfish and then for nearly two decades at Oracle, contributing to the Fusion Cloud ERP platform.
• Motivated by the impact of education, he shifted his career to the higher education sector.
• He served as Deputy CIO at the University of North Texas before becoming VP and CDO at the University of Cincinnati.
• At UC, he manages IT operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation initiatives like AI and VR.
• He leads a team of approximately 500 staff and students and supports a population of 54,000 students and 15,000 faculty and staff. Continue reading https://aimagazine.com/interviews/bharath-prabhakaran