Prahalad Thota

Prahalad Thota currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics, Member, and Innovation Officer at USAA Bank, a position held since August 2024. Thota has extensive experience in analytics and data science, having held various leadership roles, including VP and Head of Analytics for Reality Labs at Meta and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science at Wells Fargo. Additionally, Thota contributes to academia as an Advisory Board Member for the MS Analytics Graduate Program at Georgia Institute of Technology and the MS Business Analytics Graduate Program at Santa Clara University. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, among other institutions, Thota possesses advanced degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Finance.