Accenture has agreed to acquire Faculty, a leading UK-based AI-native services and products company, to significantly scale its AI capabilities. The acquisition will bring over 400 AI specialists, including highly qualified data scientists and engineers, into Accenture, along with Faculty's flagship decision intelligence product, Faculty Frontier™. Faculty's CEO, Marc Warner, will become Accenture's Chief Technology Officer, underscoring the strategic importance of this move in Accenture's mission to embed trusted, advanced AI into client business processes.
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Accenture agrees to acquire Faculty, a leading UK-based AI services and products company.
The acquisition adds over 400 AI-native professionals, including data scientists and AI engineers.
Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture's Chief Technology Officer and join the Global Management Committee.
Faculty's decision intelligence product, Faculty Frontier™, will join Accenture's product suite.
Faculty is known for AI safety and mission-critical applications, like the NHS COVID-19 Early Warning System.
The move accelerates Accenture's strategy to deliver safe, outcome-driven AI transformations for clients.
The acquisition of Faculty represents a major strategic investment by Accenture to deepen its technical AI prowess and product offerings. By integrating Faculty's team of highly specialized AI practitioners and its proven Frontier™ product, Accenture aims to enhance its ability to design, build, and implement complex, high-performance AI systems that drive tangible business outcomes for clients across industries, from life sciences to public sector.
Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, emphasized the strategic alignment: “With Faculty, we will further accelerate our strategy to bring trusted, advanced AI to the heart of our clients’ businesses. I’m pleased to welcome the Faculty team to Accenture and look forward to Marc's contribution shaping our technology vision and strategy as Chief Technology Officer."
Marc Warner, CEO of Faculty, highlighted the combined potential: “Our vision has always been a world in which safe AI delivers widespread benefits to humanity... As AI advances rapidly, the ambition of our clients is now, rightly, no less than the reinvention of their business. I am delighted that by teaming up with Accenture, we have everything in place to support AI transformation from start to finish.”
Faculty brings three critical assets to Accenture:
Elite Talent: A team of over 400 specialists with deep applied AI skills.
Proprietary Product: The Faculty Frontier™ decision intelligence platform, which uses simulation and optimization for complex business decisions (e.g., clinical trial planning for Novartis).
AI Safety Credentials: A strong reputation for building safe, ethical AI systems, with collaborations including OpenAI, Anthropic, and the UK AI Security Institute.
Beyond immediate capabilities, Accenture plans to leverage and globalize Faculty's successful Fellowship Program, which transitions STEM PhDs and post-doctoral researchers into industry roles. This initiative will help scale a pipeline of elite AI talent globally, benefiting both Accenture and its clients. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, solidifies Accenture's position as a comprehensive AI reinvention partner.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 784,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders.
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