Prabhash Shrestha – Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Strategy Officer
Independent Community Bankers of America
This year, we feel very fortunate to have a keynote speaker from our own community. NPPA would like to proudly announce that this year’s keynote speaker is our own Mr. Prabhash Shrestha! Mr. Shrestha grew up in a Newah community and is a recognized professional in the field of Information Technology. Mr. Shrestha was one of the panelists during the Youth Mobilization & Networking Event organized by NPPA and he inspired quite a number of our youths who participated in the event. We look forward to welcoming him and enjoying his keynote speech during NPPA’s 27th Anniversary and Nepal Sambat 1139 Bhintuna Celebration.
Prabhash Shrestha is executive vice president and chief digital strategy officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America. In his role, Prabhash leads the association’s digital efforts, ensuring their alignment with ICBA’s business goals and objectives. He is a digital transformation champion and he truly understands the association business.
He has received a number of industry honors, including a Top Association and Non-Profit Innovators award in 2017 and 2015, a 2016 Top Association Tech Guru award, and several teaching excellence awards at Georgetown University. He also was featured in ‘2015 TRENDS Tech 10’ and ‘Top 5 under 35’ in 2007 by Associations Now.
Prabhash is extremely passionate about the association technology business. Prabhash has been organizing bi-monthly invitation-only Association CIO Roundtable Breakfast for over three years in Washington DC. Prabhash speaks frequently on technology strategies and issues in various association and non-profit conferences. Because of his technology leadership traits, he was recently invited to speak in London. He has implemented numerous successful business solutions to help and he is always willing to help other association professionals by sharing his knowledge, skills, and experience passionately.
Prabhash is a member of the governing board of the Wise Giving Alliance and chair of their technology committee. He is also a technology committee member for the Council of Better Business Bureaus. He is an active member of the association community has been a chairperson of ASAE Technology Council and member of ASAE Executive Management Council. He also served in AOAExcel governing board, a for-profit subsidiary of American Optometric Association.
Prabhash has more than 20 years of extensive information technology leadership experience including leadership roles with the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He most recently served as Vice President of Technology for the American Gastroenterological Association, where he led the organization’s technology strategy and operations. He is a Certified Association Executive (CAE).
Prabhash holds an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate on Strategy and Innovation and has entrepreneurship certificates from the Wharton School of Business. Prabhash is a Georgetown University professor and he has been teaching their Master’s Program in Technology Management since 2010.
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