Jimmy is CEO of Accenture North America, the global company’s largest geographic market, generating $29B in revenues in FY22. He leads nearly 80,000 people to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity for Accenture’s people, its clients and its communities.
Making it his mission to create a culture of compassion, Jimmy continuously strives to create a workplace where everyone can be who they are, feel respected and experience a sense of belonging. His commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has helped the company earn numerous top rankings as a great place to work and a DEI leader.
Jimmy is a trained mental health ally and a champion of Accenture’s mental health and wellness programs. He is also a passionate supporter of Accenture's earn-and-learn apprenticeship program and the company’s shift to making hiring decisions based more on skills, experience and potential and less on educational background. Under Jimmy’s leadership, Accenture North America set, and exceeded, a goal of filling 20% of its U.S. entry-level roles with its apprentices in 2022, creating access to careers in data engineering, cybersecurity, cloud and many other areas.
“Doing well while doing good” is core to Jimmy’s leadership approach and he shows that it’s not only possible, it’s also a competitive differentiator for Accenture. Since becoming CEO of Accenture North America in 2019, he helped steer the organization and its clients through the pandemic while positioning Accenture as a leader in disruptive innovation and enterprise reinvention. Jimmy’s growth strategy expanded the breadth and depth of the services Accenture North America provides to 13 industry groups, numerous Fortune 500 companies and some of the largest organizations in the U.S. federal government. He is an executive officer of Accenture, and a member of Accenture’s Global Executive Committee and Global Management Committee.
Jimmy joined Accenture in 1985. He became a partner in 1997 and executive partner in 2011. His career included leading the teams responsible for many of the company’s largest clients and overseeing practices in both North America and Europe. While directing Accenture’s business across 10 states in the Southeast, Jimmy extended Accenture's innovation hub network by creating an innovation incubator at Georgia Institute of Technology and expanding Accenture's hub in metro Washington D.C.
He has been recognized as one of Business Insider’s "Power Players of Consulting” and has ranked on lists of Atlanta’s most powerful leaders. He also sits on the boards of TechBridge National, the Global Apprenticeship Network (a Switzerland-based coalition) and several Atlanta organizations, including the Atlanta Area Council for the Boy Scouts of America, Atlanta Police Foundation, Carter Center, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Woodruff Arts Center.
Jimmy has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he currently serves as a trustee and is a member of the university’s Hill Society.
