Hitha Prabhakar is a retail industry expert and principal of The Stylefile Group, a retail consulting firm based in New York City. As the former style writer for Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, Hitha covered the luxury industry as well as men's fashion. She has written for Time magazine, People magazine, People.com, ELLE India, Metro Newspapers, Nirvana Women, Inked magazine and Zink magazine. She is also a contributor on CNBC.

She has had numerous television appearances as a retail analyst for Fox Business News, Fox News, Skye News, Fox Radio Network, foxnews.com, Bravo, CNN, CBS, Univision, E! Entertainment television, Reuters and as the host of Emmy winning New York based show Cool in Your Code, which airs on WNBC and WNYC TV. In 2009, she was a coach for the MTV hit series, "MADE."