Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee (born 1960) is an Indian American academic and computer scientist and is currently the Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS and board member at Cray and CUBIC.

Previously, he was a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry where he was responsible for IOT and Digital Transformation Advisory Services within the Global Industrial Practice.

While on leave from Northwestern University (2000 to 2002), Banerjee, with the help of his team of graduate students, started AccelChip Inc., a developer of products and services for electronic design automation.

As the senior vice president of research at Hewlett Packard, Banerjee helped develop technical strategies for the company.

[10] He has dismissed the cast-offs as interesting science projects and championed the survivors as big bets with the most commercial potential.

Formerly he has served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the United States National Academies.

During September 1, 2015 to June 15, 2017, Prith Banerjee was an Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric.

[15] In this role he was responsible for driving innovation and technology differentiation, and coordinating the R&D activities of the company across its five businesses with 8,000 R&D personnel, and a 1.2 billion Euro R&D investment.

In this role he is responsible for driving the long-term technology strategy of the company in areas such as high-performance computing, AI/machine learning, cloud and platforms, and digital engineering.