Anand Sankaran - Senior Vice President & Business Head – India, Middle East & Africa and Global
Business Head - Infrastructure and Services
Anand Sankaran is the Senior Vice President & Business Head, India and Middle East and Africa business of Wipro and carries the P&L responsibility for Wipro Infotech. He also leads the Global Technology Infrastructure Services business for Wipro Limited. In the dual role, Anand is responsible for managing 1.2bn USD business of Wipro Limited.
Under Anand's able leadership, Wipro's IT business for India and Middle East has crossed the $1 billion mark in revenues. Wipro is currently No. 2 IT services provider and No. 1 Systems integrator in the country.
As Head of the Global Infrastructure & Services business, Anand is responsible for evolving strategies and enabling functional structures to make Wipro more agile and potent in its Infrastructure business globally.
Prior to this role, Anand was the Vice President, Global IT Outsourcing for Wipro Infotech and Wipro Technologies and also the Global Sales & Marketing Head for Technology Infrastructure Services.
Among Anand’s path breaking initiatives has been the creation of the Total Outsourcing business to address all IT requirements of a customer, end-to-end. The new business model proved to be a game changer for Wipro catapulting the company from a system integrator to a transformational player in the Telecom, BFSI and government space.
In a career spanning 22 years, Anand has literally risen from the ranks to hold several key positions in the organization including that of General Manager - Managed IT Services, Wipro Infotech, Head – Sales – Professional Services, Wipro Infotech, Head – Sales, Alliances, to name a few.
Achuthan Nair - Sr. Vice President & Business Head, Professional Services Division
Achuthan Nair is the Senior Vice President and Business Head of Professional Services Business(PSD) of Wipro InfoTech. PSD is the services arm of Wipro, focusing on providing Systems Integration services, IT management services, Technology availability services and Outsourced Data centre services. With 14000 plus employees, it is one of Wipro's largest divisions. The geographical focus for this division is India and the Middle East. This division contributes strongly to Wipro's leadership position in the region.
He had been with wipro for more than 19 years and has worked in various capacities. He has been predominantly in the Sales and Marketing function managing geographies and businesses. Prior to this position, Achuthan was responsible for the Cisco business within Wipro; both from customer and vendor perspective spanning all geographies.
He has done his BE from Mumbai University and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is voracious reader and has avid interest in Fiction, Indian Politics and Biographies.
Anurag Mehrotra - Vice President, Client Relationship Group
Anurag Mehrotra is the Vice President and Head Client Relationship Group of Wipro India and Middle East IT business. In his current role he is responsible for Regional Sales Operations across the 10 Regions within the country and also for Utilities and Metals, BFSI and ECTI (Engineering, Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure) Verticals. In his 8.5 years with Wipro he has handled multiple roles which include establishing the ERP practice in 2001, General Manager Enterprise Vertical and Vice President Uber Relationships.
Prior to joining Wipro, he was Head of Informix (Domestic operations). He has also worked with Sun Microsystems, Tata-IBM (now IBM) and HCL-HP in a career Spanning 17 years in the Indian IT Industry. He started his career in mid eighties in HCL-HP developing the then nascent CAD/CAM market which obviously was focused on the Manufacturing segment. In early nineties he joined IBM handling the Process and Distribution segment where the strong focus was on the then emerging ERP market. He was in Sun Microsystems from 1995-2000 where he handled multiple assignments which included handling the Energy, Government and the Education and Research segment.
He holds a B-Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Ashok Tripathy - VP & Business Head, Wipro Systems & Technologies and IAS
Ashok Tripathy provides leadership as the business head to Wipro Systems & Technology business and associated Infrastructure Availability Services.
Ashok joined Wipro from business school campus, 15 years back. Ashok holds a distinction in Bachelor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Over the years Ashok worked through the ranks in sales, corporate planning and business management. He was awarded the Best Salesperson across the organization in his formative years in 1997. Prior to the current assignment Ashok was the business head for Enterprise Platforms Business which provides enterprise class servers and storage solutions for core applications.
Systems & Technology business addresses Industry Standard Systems and Open Technologies and the offering spans Datacenter to Desk-side systems, alliance with Microsoft and related services. The key charter is to strongly establish Wipro's products and services across the range of offerings. He is known for his work on the fundamental aspects of value propositions and restructuring of business strategies. Wipro's No. 1 Green Ranking, revamp of Wipro's product lines and scaling of alliances and services are some of the key successes of Ashok and his team.
Sairaman Jagannathan - Vice President, Business Solutions
Sairaman Jagannathan is the Vice President and Business Head of Business Solutions Division in Wipro India and Middle East IT business. He is a senior member of the Wipro leadership team and currently leads a team of over 2400 software professionals in India and Middle East. An experienced professional with over 27 years in the software industry, his core experience has been in the areas of Software Development, Project/ Program Management, Practice Development, Development Center Management, Business Development and Business Unit Management.
He has managed numerous projects in different geographies such as US, Japan, APAC/ME and India. He is a BE in Electrical and Electronics (Hons) from Madras University – College of Engineering, Guindy.
Vikas Srivastava is the Vice President and Business Head – Technology Integration Services, Wipro India and Middle East IT business. Vikas joined Wipro in 1998 and has in total 21 years of experience in the IT industry. He joined Wipro Acer Limited which was the joint venture between Wipro and Acer. He has handled variety of roles in managing part of sales and subsequently the product management team in HO.
Vikas took over the Networking business of Wipro Infotech in 2001. From 2001 to 2008 he has been responsible for the Networking business for Wipro Infotech and has grown the business from USD 10m to USD 155m.
Vikas is currently responsible for the entire Infrastructure business of Wipro in India and Middle East. Prior to Wipro, he joined Pertech Limited from the campus in 1988 and held various positions, the last being Regional Manager in Lucknow in the year 1998.