Kavitha Prabhakar, a principal at Deloittes consulting business, has been appointed to lead the civil government practice of the professional services company.
She will oversee the unit composed of more than 3,000 practitioners who support 22 federal agencies and succeeds Diane Murray, who has taken a new role as delivery excellence leader for Deloitte, the company said Tuesday.
Prabhakar has led the firm’s Executive Women in Technology initiative for the Chief Information Officer Program and Womens Initiative programs that have included 100 Wise Women and Women on Wall Street.
The more than 20-year consultant previously worked with public and private sector clients such as the Internal Service Revenue, Capital One, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.