Our Chairman Azim H. Premji, senior executives of Wipro and external members who are global leaders and visionaries, form the Wipro Board of Directors which provides direction and guidance to the organization.
Chairman
Azim H. Premji - Chairman
Azim Premji has led Wipro since the late 1960's. Then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro Limited is today a $6 billion revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with presence in over 50 countries.
Premji started at Wipro with one basic idea - to build an organization which was deeply committed to Values, with the firm belief that success in business would be its inevitable, eventual outcome. Unflinching commitment to Values continues to remain at the core of Wipro.
Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things and that the key to this is creating highly charged teams. He takes a personal interest in developing teams and leaders and invests significant time as a faculty in Wipro's leadership development programs.
In Premji's view, the Wipro brand promise of "Applying Thought" is the driving force for delivering value for customers – which is the heart of business success. This has driven Wipro's pioneering efforts in Quality, culminating in the "Wipro Way", which integrates the methods and practices of Six Sigma, PCMM, CMMi and Lean. It also drives Wipro's focus on applying Innovation for direct customer benefits – improving their time-to-market, enhancing their predictability & reliability, and cutting their costs.
Premji is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility – and that this responsibility must be discharged: by conducting ethical and fair business, by active involvement with fundamental societal issues and by building an ecologically sustainable business. Wipro is deeply involved in trying to improve Quality of school education through its "Wipro Applying Thought in Schools" initiative, in local community causes through "Wipro Cares" and is determinedly committed to a journey which weaves ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its business and organization.
Over the years, Azim Premji has received many honors and accolades, which he believes are recognitions for each person who has contributed to Wipro. Business Week listed him amongst the top 30 entrepreneurs in world history (July 2007), they also featured him on their cover with the sobriquet "India's Tech King" (October 2003). Financial Times included him in the global list of 25 people who are "dramatically reshaping the way people live, work or think" and have done most to bring about significant and lasting social, political or cultural changes (October 2005, November 2004). Time has listed him as one amongst 100 most influential people in the world in April 2004 and in April 2011, citing his contribution to improving the public education system in India, which serves the underprivileged and disadvantaged. He was named by Fortune (August 2003) as one of the 25 most powerful business leaders outside the US, Forbes (March 2003) listed him as one of ten people globally, who have the most "power to effect change". He was adjudged as the Business Leader of the Year 2004 by the Economic Times.
In 2005 he became the first Indian recipient of the Faraday Medal. Wesleyan University, USA, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Aligarh University and Visveswaraya Technological University have all conferred honorary doctorates on him, while XLRI, Jamshedpur has conferred the Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial and Social Peace. In 2000, the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers conferred its highest honor - the Honorary Fellowship. The US-India Business Council has honored him with the "Global Vision" award. He is a non-executive Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Councils for National Integration and for Trade & Industry in India. He is also a member of the Indo-UK and the Indo-France CEO's forum.
In January 2011, the Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Vibhushana, one of the highest civilian awards in the country. In 2005 he had also been conferred with the Padma Bhushana. The Republic of France has bestowed on him the "Legion of Honor" in 2011.
In the year 2001, Premji established the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with a Vision of significantly contributing to quality primary education for every child, in order to build a just, equitable, humane & sustainable society. The financial resources to this foundation have been personally contributed by Premji. The Azim Premji Foundation has reached out to over 2.5 million children in more than 20,000 schools across India. In October 2006, the Foundation was recognized as the Corporate Citizen of the year by the Economic Times. The Foundation is currently in the process of a very significant scale-up, including setting up a University and multiple field level institutions, all focused on improvement in Education in India and related issues of Development.
Azim Premji is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.
Executive Directors
T. K. Kurien - CEO, IT Business & Executive Director
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer of IT Business and Executive Director, Wipro Limited. TK is also a member of the Wipro Corporate Executive Council.
With over 27 years of global diversified experience, which includes the 10-years he has been with Wipro, TK has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Wipro's businesses successfully. He has a track record for customer centricity, passion for excellence and rigor in execution. He has proven to be a transformational leader and has been instrumental in turning around the various businesses that he has spearheaded within Wipro including the BPO, Media, Telecom and Consulting businesses. TK is also credited with building global leadership for some of Wipro's business units he led across the world.
Prior to taking over the role as CEO of the IT business, in Feb 2011, TK was President of Wipro's recently launched Eco Energy business. In June 2008, he took on the responsibility of heading Wipro's Consulting arm, WCS (Wipro Consulting Services), and spearheaded its growth, establishing it as a distinct offering by Wipro. From 2004 to 2008, TK headed Wipro BPO, during which time he turned the business around to achieve market leadership, best-in-class profitability and revenue growth. He was awarded the Global BPO Industry Leader award by IQPC (International Quality & Productivity Center) in 2007 for the exceptional performance of Wipro BPO. In February 2003, he became the Chief Executive of Wipro's Healthcare & Life Sciences, the new business segment of Wipro Ltd. formed in April 2002 to address the market opportunities in Healthcare and Life Science IT. In his early years at Wipro, TK started the Telecom Internet Service Provider business for which he managed to create a significant impact by accelerating revenue growth.
Before joining Wipro, TK served as the Managing Director of GE X Ray from October 1997 to January 2000 and prior to that was the CFO of GE Medical Systems (South Asia).
TK is a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He spends his spare time reading books on history and strategy.
Suresh C Senapaty - Executive Director & Chief Finance Officer
Suresh Senapaty heads Legal, Business Planning, Treasury and Controllership.
His association with Wipro goes back to Wipro Consumer Care where he was the CFO. He later became the Vice President Finance of Wipro Infotech. He moved to his present role as CFO, Wipro Corporation in 1995.
Suresh Senapaty has accomplished a number of significant milestones for Wipro Corporation. His first assignment was the merger of various companies such as Wipro Infotech and Wipro Systems with Wipro Limited. He played a key role in the New York Stock Exchange Listing of Wipro in 2000. This is the second time in the history of Wipro that it accessed the capital market; the first time was 1946.
He has been a committee member of the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII) at the Regional Level and has made successful representations to the Government of India on a variety of Industry related issues.
Independent Directors
Ashok S. Ganguly
Dr. Ashok Ganguly has served as a Director on our Board since 1999. He is currently the Chairman of Firstsource Solutions Limited and ABP Private Limited (Ananda Bazar Patrika Group) and has been a Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India, since November 2000. He also currently serves as a non-executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, ICICI Knowledge Park and Tata AIG Life Insurance Co. Limited and a Director on the Advisory Board of Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited and Hemogenomics Private Limited. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry as well as the Investment Commission and the India-USA CEO Council, set up by the Prime Minister of India and the President of the U.S. Dr. Ganguly is also a member of the National Knowledge Commission to the Prime Minister of India. He is a former member of the Board of British Airways Plc (1996-2005) and Unilever Plc/NV (1990-1997).
B. C. Prabhakar
B.C. Prabhakar has served as a Director on our Board since February 1997. He is a practicing lawyer since April 1970. He also serves as a non-executive Director of Automotive Axles Limited and 3M India Limited. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology and an LLB from Mysore University, India.
Dr. Henning Kagermann
Dr. Henning Kagermann, President of Acatech (German Academy of Science and Technology), joined the Wipro Board of Directors in 2009. Prior to joining Acatech, he was Chief Executive Officer of SAP AG, till 2009. He joined SAP in 1982 and was initially responsible for product development in the areas of cost accounting and controlling. Later, he oversaw the development of all administrative solutions, including human resources, as well as industry-specific development for Banking, Insurance, Public Sector, and Healthcare. His duties also included finance and administration as well as the management of all SAP regions. He has been a member of the SAP Executive Board since 1991.
Prior to joining SAP AG, Dr. Kagermann was Professor of Physics and Computer Science at the University of Tu Braunschweig and University of Mannheim, Germany.
He is currently a member of the supervisory boards of Deutsche Bank AG, Munich Re, Deutsche Post in Germany and Nokia Corporation.
He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and is a member of the senate of Max Planck Gesellschaft and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
Jagdish N. Sheth
Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth has served as a Director on our Board since January 1999. He is a professor at Emory University since July 1991. He is also on the boards of Innovolt Inc., Adayana Inc, Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Limited and Shasun Pharma Solutions Limited (UK).
Dr. Sheth holds a B.Com (Honors) from Madras University, India, an MBA and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Narayanan Vaghul
Narayanan Vaghul has served as a Director on our Board since June 1997. He was the Chairman of the Board of ICICI Limited since September 1985 and after its merger with ICICI Bank Limited continues to be the Chairman of the merged entity. He is also on the boards of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Mahindra World City Developers Limited, Nicholas Piramal India, Limited, National Aviation Company of India Limited, IAL Airport Services Limited, Air India Air Transport Services Limited, Air India Engineering Services Limited, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, Himatsingka Seide Limited, Hemogenomics Private Limited, Asset Reconstruction Company India Limited, Arcelor Mittal Luxembourg, Arcelor Mittal Europe and Azim Premji Foundation.
He is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Apollo Hospitals, and Nicholas Piramal India Limited and Chairman of the Board Governance and Remuneration Committee of ICICI Bank Limited. He is also a member of the Audit Committee in Nicholas Piramal India Limited and Mahindra World City Developers Limited, apart from being the lead independent Director of our Company.
Mr. Vaghul holds Bachelor (Honors) degree in Commerce from Madras University, India.
Priya Mohan Sinha
Priya Mohan Sinha became a Director of our company on January 1, 2002. He has served as the Chairman of PepsiCo India Holdings Limited and President of Pepsi Foods Limited since July 1992. From October 1981 to November 1992, he was on the Executive Board of Directors of Hindustan Lever Limited. From 1981 to 1985 he also served as Sales Director of Hindustan Lever. Currently, he is on the boards of ICICI Bank Limited, Bata India Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Lafarge India Pvt. Limited and Azim Premji Foundation. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination, Governance and Compensation Committee of Bata India Limited.
Mr. Sinha holds a Bachelor of Arts from Patna University and he has also attended the Advanced Management Program in the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
William Arthur Owens
William Arthur Owens has held senior leadership positions at large multinational corporations. From April 2004 to November 2005, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nortel Networks Corporation, a networking communications company. From August 1998 to April 2004, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications company. From June 1996 to August 1998, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a research and engineering firm. Presently, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Polycom Inc., Daimler Chrysler AG, Embarq, Intelius and Force 10.
Mr. Owens holds an MBA (Honors) degree from George Washington University, a B.S. in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy and a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He has been a Director of our company since July 1, 2006.
Shyam Saran
Shyam Saran is a career diplomat who has served in significant positions in the Indian government for over three decades. He belongs to the 1970 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. He last served as the Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India (October 2006 to March 2010) specializing in nuclear issues, and he also was the Indian envoy on climate change.
Prior to this he was the Foreign Secretary, Government of India (2004-2006). He also served as the Ambassador of India to Nepal, Indonesia, Myanmar and Mauritius. His diplomatic stints have taken him to Indian missions in Geneva, Beijing and Tokyo. He has been a Fellow of the United Nations Disarmament Program in Geneva, Vienna and New York.
Mr. Saran holds a Post Graduate degree in Economics and apart from English and his mother tongue Hindi, he is well-versed in Chinese and French.
M. K. Sharma
Mr. M K Sharma completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Department of Business Management, University of Delhi and Diploma in Labour Laws from Indian Law Institute, Delhi. He served as a member of the Corporate Law Committee formed by the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs to redraft the Companies Act. He also served as a member of the Committee on Corporate Governance formed by the Government of India.
Mr. Sharma currently is on the boards of Wipro Limited, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd, Birla Corporation Ltd, Fulford (India) Ltd, KEC International Ltd, The Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Limited and Scharder Duncan Ltd. At Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., Mr. MK Sharma serves both as Independent Director and Non-executive chairman.
Wipro Corporate Executive Council comprises a core group of corporate ideologues who have played a key role in shaping the company's corporate initiatives over the years. The Corporate Executive Council, led by Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro Limited, has been an active and engaging forum in deliberating the long term vision for the corporation.
Azim H. Premji - Chairman
Azim Premji has led Wipro since 1966. Then a USD 2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro Limited is today a USD 5 billion revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with presence in over 50 countries.
He started at Wipro with one basic idea - to build an organization which was deeply committed to values, in the firm belief that success in business would be its inevitable, eventual outcome. Unflinching commitment to values continues to remain at the core of Wipro.
Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things and that the key to this is creating highly charged teams. He takes a personal interest in developing teams and leaders and invests significant time as a faculty in Wipro's leadership development programs.
In Premji's view, the Wipro brand promise of 'Applying Thought' is the driving force for delivering value for customers - which is the heart of business success. This has driven Wipro's pioneering efforts in Quality, culminating in the 'Wipro Way', which integrates the methods and practices of Six Sigma, PCMM, CMMi and Lean amongst others. It also drives Wipro's focus on applying innovation for direct customer benefits - improving their time-to-market, enhancing their predictability and reliability and cutting their costs.
He is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility and that this must be discharged by conducting ethical and fair business, by involvement with community issues and by building an ecologically sustainable business. Wipro is deeply involved in trying to improve the quality of school education through its 'Wipro Applying Thought in Schools' initiative, in local community causes through 'Wipro Cares' and is determinedly committed to a journey which weaves ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its business and organization.
Suresh C Senapaty - Executive Director & Chief Finance Officer
Suresh Senapaty heads Legal, Business Planning, Treasury and Controllership.
His association with Wipro goes back to Wipro Consumer Care where he was the CFO. He later became the Vice President Finance of Wipro Infotech. He moved to his present role as CFO, Wipro Corporation in 1995.
Suresh Senapaty has accomplished a number of significant milestones for Wipro Corporation. His first assignment was the merger of various companies such as Wipro Infotech and Wipro Systems with Wipro Limited. He played a key role in the New York Stock Exchange Listing of Wipro in 2000. This is the second time in the history of Wipro that it accessed the capital market; the first time was 1946.
He has been a committee member of the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII) at the Regional Level and has made successful representations to the Government of India on a variety of Industry related issues.
T. K. Kurien - CEO, IT Business & Executive Director
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer of IT Business and Executive Director, Wipro Limited. TK is also a member of the Wipro Corporate Executive Council.
With over 27 years of global diversified experience, which includes the 10-years he has been with Wipro, TK has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Wipro's businesses successfully. He has a track record for customer centricity, passion for excellence and rigor in execution. He has proven to be a transformational leader and has been instrumental in turning around the various businesses that he has spearheaded within Wipro including the BPO, Media, Telecom and Consulting businesses. TK is also credited with building global leadership for some of Wipro's business units he led across the world.
Prior to taking over the role as CEO of the IT business, in Feb 2011, TK was President of Wipro's recently launched Eco Energy business. In June 2008, he took on the responsibility of heading Wipro's Consulting arm, WCS (Wipro Consulting Services), and spearheaded its growth, establishing it as a distinct offering by Wipro. From 2004 to 2008, TK headed Wipro BPO, during which time he turned the business around to achieve market leadership, best-in-class profitability and revenue growth. He was awarded the Global BPO Industry Leader award by IQPC (International Quality & Productivity Center) in 2007 for the exceptional performance of Wipro BPO. In February 2003, he became the Chief Executive of Wipro's Healthcare & Life Sciences, the new business segment of Wipro Ltd. formed in April 2002 to address the market opportunities in Healthcare and Life Science IT. In his early years at Wipro, TK started the Telecom Internet Service Provider business for which he managed to create a significant impact by accelerating revenue growth.
Before joining Wipro, TK served as the Managing Director of GE X Ray from October 1997 to January 2000 and prior to that was the CFO of GE Medical Systems (South Asia).
TK is a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He spends his spare time reading books on history and strategy.
Pratik Kumar - Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Wipro Limited
Pratik Kumar has been associated with Wipro for the last 19 years and is a member of Wipro's senior leadership team, closely associated with Wipro's growth over the years, and played a significant role in shaping it into a strong global player.
Being part of an industry that is highly people intensive, Pratik and his team of professionals have architected Wipro on a strong base of competencies, with the Wipro Competency Framework becoming a key vitalizing source for talent management. Under Pratik's leadership, Wipro was recognized as the first company in the world to be assessed at PCMM Level 5, the highest maturity level on the SEI framework of Carnegie Mellon University.
As a professional for over 22 years, Pratik has experience in a variety of areas. Pratik currently leads the Human Resources function for Wipro.
Since July 2010 Pratik has assumed leadership of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering business as President, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering. In addition, Pratik continues to lead the Human Resources function for Wipro. Pratik is also a member of the Corporate Executive Council of Wipro.
Pratik is a Post Graduate in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Anurag Behar - Chief Sustainability Officer, Wipro Limited
Anurag Behar is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Wipro Limited.
He had earlier led Wipro Infrastructure Engineering to a remarkable growth trajectory - the business has grown from USD 30 million to over USD 300 million in four years. The precision engineering hydraulic components that this business makes are at the core of the infrastructure growth of India, finding application in large industrial plants, airports, ports, mines, material handling, forestry, construction and earth moving equipment. The business is also the leading player in its segment in Europe, with significant operations in Scandinavia.
Over the past year Anurag led investments in two strategic diversifications – in the Water and Clean Energy sectors. This is to consult (on), design, engineer and execute high purity water management solutions and clean energy solutions. These two new businesses are the spearhead of Wipro's move into the dynamics of ecology driven opportunities.
Anurag is deeply engaged in Wipro's Social initiatives. He led Wipro's ecological sustainability initiative - EcoEye, and Wipro's efforts at improving the quality of school education in India. Currently, this program involves over 1000 schools across 17 states. He is engaged with Azim Premji Foundation's large-scale initiatives to improve quality of school education, which currently impacts over 2 million children across 20,000 schools. EcoEye is an initiative to drive ecological sustainability within Wipro, across all dimensions, and to help its partners, customers, and other stakeholders in their ecological sustainability initiatives.
He also leads Wipro Cares, a not-for-profit trust, which runs a range of long term programs for local communities and rehabilitation efforts in communities affected by natural disasters.
Anurag is a Director on the Board of Wipro GE Healthcare Ltd. - the leading player in Healthcare Technology Solutions in South Asia. He is also a member of the Board of the TERI University.
In his earlier roles in Wipro, Anurag has led brand, quality and innovation for Wipro Ltd. Quality has long been an area of deep interest for him, going back to the days when he was the leader for Six Sigma for GE Medical in South Asia. Earlier in his career, he was an integral part of the team that built the leadership position of Wipro GE Healthcare in South Asia. A significant part of his early career was spent in financing healthcare infrastructure in India.
Anurag has an MBA in Marketing & Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur and has a Degree in Electrical Engineering from REC, Trichy. He has been honored by the World Economic Forum, by being recognized as a 'Young Global Leader'.
Vineet Agrawal - President, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting
Vineet Agrawal is President, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting group of business from year 2002.
A B.Tech from IIT, New Delhi, he joined Wipro Consumer Care from Jamanalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai in 1985 in the Sales and Marketing. After significantly contributing to establishing the various national brands such as Santoor, Wipro Shikakai, Sunflower Vanaspati and Wipro Baby Soft range of products, Vineet provided leadership to the repositioning of the Wipro identity, eventually launching the new Wipro identity in April 1998.
In 1999, he was appointed Chief Executive of Wipro Peripherals and contributed in consolidating and growing the business. In July 2000, Vineet was appointed Corporate Vice President, responsible for Mission: Quality, Wipro Brand and Innovation for Wipro Corporation. Wipro launched the Innovation Initiative, Wipro Applying Thought program and Six Sigma consultancy under his leadership.
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting manufactures and markets bathing soaps, toiletries (talcum powder, hand wash soaps, face wash), baby products (soap, powder, oil, feeding bottles, diapers), hydrogenated vegetable oil, wellness products (glucose powder, honey and low calorie sweeteners), lighting products (bulbs, fluorescent tube lights, compact fluorescent lamps) and Commercial Luminaires. Under the leadership of Vineet, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting has initiated a process to grow both organically and inorganically. North West modular switches, Chandrika ayurvedic soap and Glucovita glucose powder have been acquired by the group under Vineet. During his tenure, Wipro has also entered the office modular furniture market with the launch of its own brand.
Under Commercial Lighting business Vineet was Instrumental in coming out with Innovative Luminaires, Lighting solutions that provides for energy management systems and Green initiatives , wide range of LED products for both Indoor and Outdoor applications.
After achieving critical size in Indian operations, Vineet started expanding into International Operations and acquired UNZA which has a strong presence in South East Asian countries like Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China through the Marquee brands like Enchanteur, Romano, Safi. Post UNZA Vineet acquired Yardley Brand in the countries of Middle East Asia and India.
Under Vineet leadership Wipro consumer care and Lighting business has grown across facets with presence in 40+ countries, 6500+ employees worldwide, with 13 manufacturing locations consisting of 8 in India and 5 overseas.
Vineet Agrawal has been awarded the “Distinguished Alumni” award from IIT Delhi in 2008.
Sambuddha Deb - Chief Global Delivery Officer, IT Business
Sambuddha Deb, the Chief Global Delivery Officer of Wipro, is responsible for leading Wipro's Delivery, Productivity, Six Sigma and Knowledge Management initiatives. He has been instrumental in leading Wipro through the PCMM Level 5 certification and the CMMi Level 5 certification. Deb has successfully led the integration of Six Sigma into software development processes at Wipro and also broad-basing Six Sigma application to different functional processes across Wipro Technologies. He has launched Lean methods in Software for Wipro over the last three years. During his tenure, Wipro became the first non-US company to receive IEEE award for software process improvements. Wipro has also been the ASIAN MAKE finalist for Best Knowledge Management for the last four years.
He has been the keynote speaker in International forums like IQPC, Gartner, Fabtech, World Data Mining Conference 2007 and International Association Product Developers symposium 2006. He was a speaker at JPMC's Lab Morgan Speaker series, and a guest speaker at Marshall School of Management, USC, Stern Business School, NYU, Harvard Business School and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
He has held various positions in Wipro, notably - Chief Executive - Corporate Vertical, Chief Executive - Manufacturing Vertical, Chief Quality Officer for Wipro Corporation.
He has an engineering degree from IIT, Kharagpur and a post graduation degree in management from IIM Ahmedabad. He has been in the Industry for the last 26 years, and has experience in software delivery, service, system Integration and sales.
The Wipro Management Team comprises highly motivated individuals who anchor the organization to relentlessly provide world class IT and business solutions. The team includes global leaders with excellent domain knowledge and across-the-board cross-functional experience.
Chief Executive Officer - IT Business
T. K. Kurien - CEO, IT Business & Executive Director
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer of IT Business and Executive Director, Wipro Limited. TK is also a member of the Wipro Corporate Executive Council.
With over 27 years of global diversified experience, which includes the 10-years he has been with Wipro, TK has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Wipro's businesses successfully. He has a track record for customer centricity, passion for excellence and rigor in execution. He has proven to be a transformational leader and has been instrumental in turning around the various businesses that he has spearheaded within Wipro including the BPO, Media, Telecom and Consulting businesses. TK is also credited with building global leadership for some of Wipro's business units he led across the world.
Prior to taking over the role as CEO of the IT business, in Feb 2011, TK was President of Wipro's recently launched Eco Energy business. In June 2008, he took on the responsibility of heading Wipro's Consulting arm, WCS (Wipro Consulting Services), and spearheaded its growth, establishing it as a distinct offering by Wipro. From 2004 to 2008, TK headed Wipro BPO, during which time he turned the business around to achieve market leadership, best-in-class profitability and revenue growth. He was awarded the Global BPO Industry Leader award by IQPC (International Quality & Productivity Center) in 2007 for the exceptional performance of Wipro BPO. In February 2003, he became the Chief Executive of Wipro's Healthcare & Life Sciences, the new business segment of Wipro Ltd. formed in April 2002 to address the market opportunities in Healthcare and Life Science IT. In his early years at Wipro, TK started the Telecom Internet Service Provider business for which he managed to create a significant impact by accelerating revenue growth.
Before joining Wipro, TK served as the Managing Director of GE X Ray from October 1997 to January 2000 and prior to that was the CFO of GE Medical Systems (South Asia).
TK is a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He spends his spare time reading books on history and strategy.
Anand Padmanabhan is Senior Vice President and Strategic Business Unit Head for Energy, Natural resources & Utilities (ENU), Wipro. The Energy, Natural resources & Utilities division of Wipro Technologies is one among the Top 10 IT solution providers to the ENU industry across the globe and the largest India based player in the ENU market.
Anand joined Wipro in 1987 as a field engineer and since then has contributed to the growth of the various divisions at Wipro. He has handled a variety of roles in sales and operations, chief among them being Customer Support, ERP Solutions Sales and System Integration Services.
He took over the System Integration Division in April 2004 and has launched new practices in the SI division. He also took over the responsibility of the Enterprise Services business in the year 2005. He has worked towards establishing and strengthening relationships with various technology vendors and has helped Wipro get multiple awards, from principals like Sun, Cisco, and Nortel - for our consistent performance in the Enterprise Products space. He has played a key role in forging a strategic alliance with Cisco in India in 1995.
Anand holds an engineering degree and is a management graduate from Bombay University. He is a sporting enthusiast - with chess and badminton as his favorites.
Ayan Mukerji - Sr. Vice President & Global Head, Media & Telecom
Ayan Mukerji is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Wipro's Media and Telecom Strategic Business Unit. In his previous role, Ayan headed Wipro's Product Engineering Solutions business unit. The unit included semiconductor and system solutions, mobile devices, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, aerospace & defense, industrial automation, medical devices, high performance & cloud computing, peripherals and technical publications.
Over his tenure of more than two decades at Wipro, Ayan has held a wide range of leadership positions across IT, Product Engineering and Systems Integration businesses. In his previous role, as the Chief Sales and Operations Officer for Europe until March 2010, he transformed Europe into one of Wipro's fastest growing regions. Under his leadership Europe grew significantly ahead of competition and established a stronghold in different markets. Ayan has been instrumental in driving growth and expanding Wipro''s customer base in France, Germany and the Nordics in particular. Wipro also grew its European development centre footprint by opening new offices in Rennes (France), Cologne (Germany), Oslo (Norway), Reading, and London (UK), during his two year stint.
Prior to this he was the Head of Sales for Wipro's Product Engineering Services business at North America for seven years. During this time, he drove Wipro's exponential growth in the technology business, making it the largest Product R&D services provider in the world. Ayan also established Wipro's VLSI and hardware design services practice, an area in which Wipro is the undisputed global leader today.
He joined Wipro in 1987 as a management graduate from The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. He did his B.Tech. in Electronic Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Ayan's experience of working with CIOs and CTOs of Fortune 100 corporations over the last 10 years gives him a unique and in-depth understanding of their markets and businesses. He also plays a strategic role in advising large corporations that are expanding their India presence. He has relocated to California from London.
N. S. Bala - Sr. Vice President, Manufacturing & Hi-Tech
N S Bala is the Senior Vice President and Global Head for the Manufacturing & High-Tech Industry Strategic Business Unit of IT Business. Bala manages the P&L for this division that contributes to over 19% of the global revenues of Wipro Technologies.
The 8000 people strong division focuses on enabling organizations in the Manufacturing industry transform their business in an ever changing economic environment by using IT as a lever to make them more agile and responsive across the entire value chain - areas such as customer management, manufacturing, supply chain, product engineering etc. Over the years, Bala has restructured the business unit to deepen its focus on specific sub-industry segments, building a strong customer advisory capability and offering integrated services across business process, applications and infrastructure. He has also been instrumental in driving innovation in delivery through models such as the Factory Model and Center for Integrated Global Management of Applications (Cigma).
During his stint at Wipro, Bala has been through the transformation experienced in the Indian IT industry and has also been a key contributor to Wipro's journey in becoming one of the prominent players among the global service providers.
Bala has been instrumental in pioneering the use of Toyota Production Systems principles in application & software development that was developed into a case study by the Harvard Business School and is being taught at the institute to MBAs. He was invited by Harvard to speak on the case study. The delivery model has also been featured in the book, Bangalore Tiger by Steve Hamm.
His recent innovation, Cigma, won Wipro the NASSCOM Innovation Award.
Bala has been a speaker at Supply Chain conferences, Outsourcing conferences and other forums such as SAPPHIRE, Oracle Open World during his years in the industry. He holds a MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, one of the premier management institutes in India.
Sangita Singh - Sr. Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Recognized as the Young Global Leader 2010, by the World Economic Forum, Sangita Singh as the Senior Vice-President and Head of Healthcare, Life Sciences and Services, strategic business unit of Wipro, is the senior-most Indian woman executive among the Big-3 IT services companies in the country. With more than 15 years of experience in various roles across the IT business landscape in Wipro, she has been christened as the "Outsourcing Wunderkid" by the Time magazine and was among Business Today's prestigious 25 Hottest Young Mangers list, she has been contributing significantly to the organization's strategic growth.
Prior to taking over Healthcare, Life Sciences and Services, Sangita headed the Enterprise Application Services (EAS) service line at Wipro. Sangita has driven the EAS business unit to grow over multi-fold for the last four years and has led Wipro-EAS brand to be recognized amongst the global elite leaders in enterprise application space. Sangita has led the FlexDelivery, IT service delivery innovation model which accelerated non-linear growth in Wipro. It has been recognized as a significant 'offshore service innovation' by analyst firms like Forrester Research. She has spearheaded the concept of co-innovation with partners through setting up of different Centers of Excellence which focuses on creating business solutions for Fortune-500 clients.
Prior to taking over as the Head of EAS business unit, Sangita was the Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer at Wipro. She redefined the role of Marketing in the Indian IT services industry by implementing "RoI driven marketing" initiatives. Under her leadership, Wipro won two technology marketing best practices awards - the IDC CMO global best practices award and ITSMA (IT Services Marketing association) Services Marketing Excellence award.
Sangita is equally focused on people engagement issues and has also championed the gender diversity cause in different industry forums such as FICCI.
Soumitro Ghosh is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Wipro's strategic business unit for Finance Solutions.
Backed by 27 years of experience in the IT industry, Ghosh set up Wipro's Banking and Insurance units in the early 2000's. The Finance Solutions business has now grown into a billion dollar plus unit. His endeavor is to help build an organization that provides deep industry understanding, broad range of technology services and flexible delivery models to the global financial services industry, so that they get more out of their IT investments and with greater speed.
Ghosh's stint in Wipro has encompassed several roles. He joined Wipro in 1988 as Regional Sales Manager for the CAD/CAM division in Kolkata and was responsible for the sales of Sun workstations and mini computers in the eastern region, India, first and subsequently, southern and western regions till 1995. He then moved to Bangalore in 1995 as Head of the Sun division and was responsible for sales and marketing of Sun products countrywide.
In 1996, he moved into Software Exports and headed Sales and Marketing in the newly formed Electronic Commerce division of Wipro Infotech and successfully launched our services in the worldwide market. Two years later, Ghosh became Vice President, Marketing of Wipro Technologies, responsible for the mainline marketing functions of Software Services with the prime responsibility of building awareness in the global market and positioning Wipro as a worldwide Software Services player. He was deeply involved in Wipro's listing on NYSE in October 2000, before moving on to head the Insurance and consequently Banking businesses.
Ghosh has been a much sought after speaker at a number of industry conferences and is accepted as a thought leader. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, and an MBA from the same institute.
Srini is the Senior Vice President and Head for the Strategic Business Unit which serves clients in Retail, CPG, Transportation and Government verticals, reporting to the CEO. He is responsible for strategy, sales, operations and P&L of the unit. Srini has been with Wipro for 20 years in various leadership and business development roles.
Prior to the present role, Srini was the Global Head of Business Application Services, with a team of over 29,000 people across dedicated practices. This service line contributes to 30% of Wipro’s global revenues. He has also been Vice President - Sales & Field Operations, in America’s geography driving a business of over USD 700 million across multiple industry verticals.
Srini has a strong track record of scaling up businesses by defining and executing robust strategy and operational models with a passionate approach to driving customer centricity, industry focus and new ideas in applying technology for business innovation.
He was rated among the top 25 Young Business Executives in India by Business Today in 2008. At Wipro, he has won several awards and recognitions including Award of Excellence for Exemplary Performance, All Star Team, Best Product Manager and Chairman's Club - Most Valuable Player for his contributions to Wipro's growth.
Srini holds a Master's degree in Management from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Bachelors degree in Engineering. He has undergone an Advanced Leadership Program from McGill Executive Institute, Canada.
Deepak Jain is the Senior Vice President & Global Head, Technology Infrastructure Services business with worldwide responsibility for IT Infrastructure life cycle, Sales, Marketing, System Integration and Service Delivery businesses.
Deepak has 24 years of experience in the IT services business. He handled several key roles, during his two decade stint at Wipro. Before taking up his current role as the Global Head of Technology Infrastructure Services, he was heading the Professional Services division at Wipro InfoTech, catering to markets in India and West Asia. He was responsible for launching several new services - Application Operations, Technology Transformation services, Handheld managed services, Managed Voice operations, Retail Automation & Physical Security services. He played a key role in setting up multiple delivery centers in India, West Asia, Malaysia and Egypt and in setting up the Telecom solutions business in these geographies.
Deepak is based in Bangalore and is a thought leader in IT services. He holds a B.Tech. Electronics and Communication from the Delhi College of Engineering.
Sanjay Gupta is responsible for Wipro's Product Engineering Solutions.
Wipro is a global leader in Product Engineering Solutions for the telecom, compute, storage, healthcare, automotive, and industrial engineering vertical markets. It offers turnkey solutions for systems, software, board, and VLSI design backed by its IP for speed to realization. In addition it also provides independent test and validation solutions for telecommunication and handset devices.
Prior to this role, Sanjay led Wipro's cloud and green solution portfolio and also its product management function. He has been part of Wipro's business team in the USA since 1997, and led the telecommunications vertical market sales as well as the Eastern Region for Wipro across all markets. In those roles, he was responsible for sales and customer engagement for product engineering, IT and business process solutions..
He started his career with Wipro in the Indian IT business and in his last role, was the business head for North India, responsible for sales and after sales support of IT products and services.
Sanjay is a BE in Electronics and Communications from PEC Chandigarh, and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He was a gold medalist in his MBA program and a recipient of the Citibank scholarship for academic excellence.
Manish Dugar - Senior Vice President & Global Head, Wipro BPO
Manish Dugar is the Global Head of Wipro BPO. In his earlier position, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Wipro IT Business. He has been instrumental in building a world class FP&A process, initiating cost and profitability consciousness across the organization, supporting the transitions in the organization and driving key operating parameters. The Business partnering approach of his, helped in meeting organizational goals on winning and becoming more profitable.
Manish is not new to Wipro BPO, where prior to his current role as the IT Business CFO, he headed the Finance Function for the BPO division where he played a critical part in supporting strategic initiatives on operations, transaction processing and creating global foot-prints for the group. Manish was also responsible for Corporate Strategy & Planning, Quantum Innovation, Technology & Infrastructure and Central Procurement. These were instrumental and crucial in supporting the turn around of the BPO business to become the growth and profitability engines of the company.
With his strong knowledge of both Strategy & Operations, Manish will help drive the new BPO charter by enhancing Wipro's positioning in the market and thus garnering greater market share.
K. R. Sanjiv - Sr. Vice President, Analytics & Information Management Services
K. R. Sanjiv is the Global Head and Senior Vice President for Analytics & Information Management business unit. He carries P&L responsibility, strategy and operations of this unit globally reporting to CEO.
Analytics & Information Management helps customers derive valuable insights out of integrated information by bringing together the combined expertise of Analytics, Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Information Management.
The group provides consulting, business centric and technology specific analytical solutions and data management frameworks developed through a complete ecosystem of partners, focusing on industry specific analytics, optimization and operations analytics, Enterprise Data Warehouse, MDM, Data quality and data life cycle management.
Sanjiv has over 20 years of enterprise IT and security experience, including consulting, application and technology development that spans multiple industry segments and diverse technology areas.
Since joining Wipro in 1989, Sanjiv has been involved in defining enterprise architectures for organizations that included technical models, transformation program definitions and governance models. He has designed OLTP mission critical systems such as screen-based trading systems for stock exchanges, surveillance systems and order routing systems for brokerage houses. He has spearheaded due diligence exercises in M&A situations for customers and also managed large project implementations in a global delivery model.
Prior to Wipro, Sanjiv worked for three years as a software engineer at DCM Data Products, a leading IT products and solution provider in India. Sanjiv has spoken at leading CXO summits, industry and academic conferences on varied topics related to Business Technology. He holds a bachelor's degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Kirk Strawser is Managing Partner, Wipro Consulting Services (WCS). He is a Practice Builder with over 20 years of experience. He has a strong Business Consulting background coupled with a successful track record of having worked across clients across the globe, including having lived abroad.
Kirk started his career with Morrison Knudsen, an engineering and construction company in the finance and business management area. During his stint with them he worked in Saudi Arabia for two years. He subsequently joined Arthur Young in San Francisco and from 1983 to 1991, worked on a number of business consulting projects for major companies, mid markets and start-up clients and in 1991 became a Partner.
In 1994 he became the regional leader for Retail and Consumer Products industry. In 1997 Kirk was promoted to Americas Leader for CRM for Ernst & Young where he had a very successful stint. Post acquisition by Capgemini, Kirk moved into a Global Leadership role and rolled out CRM offerings across the globe. He made significant strides in creating a single global integrated practice operating in more than 25 countries, and was Capgemini's second largest service line.
In 2003, Kirk was appointed as the President of the Consulting Services Practice, Americas. After two years in this role Kirk chose to pursue an entrepreneurial venture in commercial real estate development till recent, before he decided to join Wipro.
Business Divisions
Anand Sankaran - Sr. Vice President & Business Head, India, Middle East & Africa
Anand Sankaran is the Senior Vice President and Business Head - India, Middle East & Africa business of Wipro and carries the P&L responsibility for Wipro Infotech. 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. In this role he carried the P&L accountability for IT Outsourcing in Wipro Infotech and Wipro Technologies & the sales responsibility for technology infrastructure services.
Anand was responsible for starting the Total Outsourcing business for Wipro Infotech as well as for Wipro Technologies.
Anand has been with Wipro for the last 19 years and has held several key positions in the organization. Some of them include General Manager - Managed IT Services, Wipro Infotech, Head - Sales - Professional Services, Wipro Infotech, Head - Sales, Alliances and Market Making - Markets and National Sales Manager - Wipro Acer.
G. K. Prasanna - Sr. Vice President, EcoEnergy
Prasanna G K is Senior Vice President of Wipro EcoEnergy. EcoEnergy is the recently formed Clean Tech business division of Wipro, with a vision to create and manage sustainable energy solutions and infrastructure worldwide. As the leader of the new business venture, Prasanna has the responsibility for building EcoEnergy into a growth engine for the future.
Prior to EcoEnergy, Prasanna was Senior Vice President & Global Head for Technology Strategic business unit of Wipro Technologies. This business serves Semiconductor, Consumer electronics, Computing, Storage, Peripherals and Software companies and has several Fortune 100 companies as its customers. He led a team of over 9500 professionals in Engineering, Consulting, IT and BPO services.
Prasanna also led the Technology Infrastructure Services Business of Wipro Technologies. He was responsible for establishing Wipro as a Global leader in that space and has implemented award winning innovations to advance the practice. Under his leadership, Wipro has pioneered Remote Infrastructure Management and created a new industry sub-category in Global IT services.
Prasanna has conducted several workshops on outsourcing and has certifications in various quality systems including Six Sigma and ITIL.
Prasanna has an experience of over 27 years in the IT industry. He joined Wipro as a management trainee in 1983 and has held various responsibilities in custom application development, customer support, sales, marketing and business management.
Prasanna holds a bachelor degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and a Post graduation in Industrial engineering from NITIE, Bombay.
Sales and Operations
Manoj Punja - Chief Sales & Operations Officer, Latin America & Focus Countries
Manoj Punja is the Chief Sales and Operations Officer for Latin America & Focus Countries. In his previous capacity he was heading Wipro Eco Energy US Geo operations. Prior to that he was Chief Sales & Operations Officer for Americas. Over 60% of Wipro's IT business is generated from the Americas. In this role, he managed Wipro's IT business across all business units in the US, Canada and Latin America. His responsibilities included sales, client satisfaction and operations including local development centers in the Americas.
Prior to this role, Manoj served as the Global Head of the business unit for Technology, Media, Transportation, and the Services industries. In this role he was responsible for business development, competency development, client satisfaction and service delivery. Under his leadership, the business unit saw phenomenal growth with revenues that increased 10-fold in six years and a heightened global presence in the years 2002-2008.
Manoj joined Wipro in 1991. He has since led various groups in Wipro including the software products division, strategic resourcing, and sales for Asia-Pacific region. His experience spans sales, marketing, HR and operations functions.
Through his career Manoj has sought challenging and non traditional assignments He has led multiple new initiatives including those in strategic account management, talent sourcing automation and sales force transformation. Under his leadership his teams have developed pioneering new tools around Business Process Management, Governance, Integrated Publishing Platforms to name a few.
Manoj holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management and a Bachelors Degree Engineering in Electronics from Bangalore University.
Rajat Mathur - Chief Sales & Operations Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan
Rajat Mathur is the Chief Sales and Operations Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan for Wipro Technologies. He carries P&L responsibility, strategy and operations of this Geography and is a member of the Management Team. He has been with Wipro from nearly its inception in various business development and leadership roles.
Wipro's Asia Pacific geography is among the fastest growing geography in the organization with close to 100% YOY CAGR for last 3 years.
Prior to this role, Rajat launched the software business in India which now has revenue of over Rs 5000 million and started Wipro IT business in the Middle-East which is now in a leadership position. He has successfully spearheaded multiple portfolios within the organization and enabled bi-directional diversification in terms of industry verticals. He has contributed significantly to Wipro's business and achieved consistent and accelerated growth in key geographies and business lines.
He has also been championing Six Sigma Program and has been responsible for leading the initiative to obtain CMMI Level 5 Certification for the Business Solutions Division of Wipro.
He is a spokesman for Wipro for press and analysts and a keynote speaker at Industry Conferences in APAC, India and ME. He has been Wipro's representative in many occasions such as NASSCOM, FICCI, CII summits and has chaired Software Track in the Telecom Summit of India. He also sat on the NASSCOM sub-committee for development of IT Services for the SMB Sector.
Rajat has a Masters degree from Podar Institute of Management, Jaipur and a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India.
Function
Alexis Samuel - Chief Risk officer
As Chief Risk Officer, Alexis carries the charter to assess and mitigate Strategic, Operational risks across the organization with a sharp focus on Wipro Technologies. He is also the Ombuds person for the corporation. He reports to the CFO, CEO of the IT business and to the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board.
Prior to this he was the Head of Central Engineering and Delivery Excellence, leading activities related to Wipro's global IT business with a charter to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance customer experience. As head of Central Engineering he was instrumental in developing engineering tools to improve productivity, deploying Lean across Wipro technologies, pioneering distributed Agile, Measuring customer satisfaction & modeling actionable insights, Large program intervention and leading the Knowledge management initiative.
Alexis has 22 years of work experience across different industry segments 13 of which have been with Wipro. He has held senior management positions as delivery excellence head for Wipro Technologies, six sigma and business transformation head for Wipro's Consumer goods division, and P&L head of a multi product Wipro factory.
He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, in 1989. He is a Six sigma Master Black belt and is a Graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School.
Alexis also has participatory research interests with faculty in Harvard and Wharton Business Schools in the area of Team constructs, Lean in IT, Program management and nudge factors in employee behavior in the context of IT services delivered by Wipro Technologies.
He is married to Hannah who has a Masters in Psychology with PG Diplomas in Mental retardation and learning disabilities. She teaches students with learning disabilities. They have two children Rebecca, and Andrew. They make their home at Bangalore – India.
Dr. Anurag Srivastava - Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President
Dr. Anurag Srivastava is the Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President for Wipro's Global IT Business. His responsibilities include technology strategy planning, technology incubation through Center's of Excellence, business Innovation using futuristic technologies, technical stream & IP management, technology alliances in advanced areas with industry and academic forums.
Prior to this role, he was head of the Wipro Energy and Sustainability Services business. This business includes sustainability advisory, connected infrastructure & energy managed services to deliver comprehensive GHG reduction and energy cost optimization for our customers.
He was also responsible for starting the Consulting business for Wipro Infotech and supported its scale to the current level. He additionally led key strategic business transformational initiatives for Telecom, Telecom Equipment, Infrastructure, and Government industry verticals to build newer services/business models.
Dr. Anurag brings with him rich industry and business experience and depth of technology to Wipro. His areas of work experience are process & technology integration, data modeling & analytics, pattern recognition, distributed computing, Internet security and machine to machine collaboration. He has strong expertise in architectural frameworks, product life cycle management, incubation management and large transnational project management.
Prior to Wipro he has worked in IBM, Novell, HP-Verifone, Indian Institute of Science & Ness Technologies (Apar) in various technology & business leadership positions. He completed his PhD in Computer Science in the area of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. He has several publications in international conferences and journals (IEEE SMC, Pattern Recognition and CC-AI). He holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Master's in Computer Science & Engineering.
Dr. Anurag has been an invited speaker for various conferences by NASSCOM, Analysts fraternity, FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM, Telematics, etc. and has several journal publications and articles.
Bhanumurthy B. M. - Senior Vice President and Chief Business Operations Officer
Bhanumurthy BM (Bhanu), is the Chief Business Operations Officer of Wipro IT Business. In this role, Bhanu drives the strategy and operations of the Business Application Services service line, has overall management responsibility for Wipro's Global Delivery Organization including Productivity, Six Sigma, Lean Methods in Software and Knowledge Management initiatives and heads Application Services Management.
Business Application Services with over 29,000 people offers integrated business solutions across applications and technology landscape helping customers create successful and adaptive businesses. Application Services Management offers standardized and simplified systems of application development, maintenance and support aligning client’s IT investments with their strategic imperatives.
He is also responsible for Wipro’s Mission Quality and CIO functions enabling creation of seamless delivery processes with world class quality and systems.
Bhanu has close to twenty years of association with Wipro in leadership roles across diverse business units, service lines, delivery and operations. He is a strategic thinker and leader with deep understanding of customer’s business, technology, processes and systems, as well as external markets. Prior to the present role, he was head of Retail, Consumer Goods, Transportation & Government (RCTG) strategic business unit, which he built and nurtured for over a decade, driving over $1b revenue.
Bhanu is reputed for his strong work ethic, results-oriented, adaptive and positive attitude to change with exceptional ability to forge and maintain major client relationships. He represents Wipro in several external business forums and is a frequent speaker at leading business, technology and academic forums around the world.
He holds an MBA Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and an Engineering Degree from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warrangal.
Inderpreet Sawhney - Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Wipro Limited
Inderpreet Sawhney is the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Wipro Limited. She is responsible for overseeing legal affairs of Wipro globally.
She has 20 years of international legal experience having worked both in India and U.S. Prior to joining Wipro, Inderpreet served as the Managing Partner of The Chugh Firm Silicon Valley office where her mandate included counsel on complex international transactions, corporate review, mergers and acquisitions, litigation management, employment (including immigration) matters, primarily for information technology, business process outsourcing, retail service and hospitality companies. Prior to that Inderpreet was in-house counsel at ITC Limited.
She also serves on the National Advisory Council of NASABA (North American South Asian Bar Association). Her past leadership positions include President NASABA, Board Member of Partham Bay Area, Foundation for Excellence, Indus Women Leaders.
In recognition for her work, she has been awarded the 2006 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award, 2010 Outstanding Mentorship Award SABA Northern California and 2010 NASABA Cornerstone Award. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in India and the U.S.
She has a BA (Hons.) and LL.B degree from Delhi University and a LL.M from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
Jatin Dalal - Chief Financial Officer, IT Business
Jatin joined Wipro in 2002 and over the years, has managed diverse finance responsibilities. During 2002-04, he led the initiative of setting up of Wividus – Wipro’s Shared Services division and led it as its first Finance Head. In 2005, he moved to Investors Relations (IR) and was part of the IR team that won the coveted Institutional Investor Award for Best IR function in India. In this role, he also led Treasury’s economic research. He then moved to lead Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for the IT Business. In his most recent role, Jatin was the CFO for Europe and Global Finance Head for two Business Units (ENU and Manufacturing & Hitech), responsible for the profitability and overall Business Finance support.
Before joining Wipro, Jatin was part of the prestigious Financial Management Program (FMP) of General Electric (GE) and was awarded ‘Global Corporate Honors’.
Jatin is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Management Accountant (UK) and an MBA (Finance).
Rajan Kohli - Chief Marketing Officer, IT Business
Rajan Kohli is Chief Marketing Officer of IT Business. In this role, he is responsible for enhancing Wipro's brand globally, to include, Brand positioning, Brand promotion, Analyst Relations and Press communication across geographies and business units. Rajan has been with Wipro for over 15 years and has successfully served in various sales and business leadership roles.
Prior to his current role, Rajan was the head of the US Sales for Wipro's Banking & Financial Services vertical and the Business Technology Service line. Here he held the responsibility of managing and growing Wipro's client relationships and for shaping Wipro's go-to-market strategies for new products and services to serve the financial services clientele in the U.S.
Rajan is a key member of Wipro's leadership team and is part of several leadership forums including Wipro's Diversity Council.
Rajan completed his post graduate degree in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing and Finance from the Indian Institute of Management(IIM), Bangalore. He also holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications.
Rishad Premji - Chief Strategy Officer, IT Business
Rishad joined Wipro Technologies in 2007 in the Banking and Financial Services Vertical (BFSI) as Business Head for Special Projects where he championed Wipro's entry into the Mortgage area as an end to end provider of Mortgage Solutions in the Origination and Loan Servicing space. This led to the acquisition of Gallagher Financial Systems (now called Wipro Gallagher Solutions). While at BFSI, Rishad also lead the integration of Citi Technology Services, Wipro's acquisition of the Citibank captive in the application and infrastructure space. Subsequent to the stint with BFSI, Rishad moved to Wipro Corporate as Head of Investor Relations working for the Corporate Treasurer where he helped significantly scale up the systems, processes and interactions with both internal and external stakeholders. In his most current role Rishad is Chief Strategy Officer of Wipro's IT Business reporting to the CEO. In this role Rishad is responsible for Wipro's Global IT Strategy.
Prior to joining Wipro, Rishad worked with Bain & Co in their London Office where he worked on assignments across Consumer Products, Automobiles, Telecom and Insurance. Rishad also worked with GE Capital in the US across several businesses throughout the Insurance and Consumer Lending space and is a graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP).
Rishad has an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS) and graduated with a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in the US. Rishad has also spent a year at the London School of Economics where he was part of the General Course Program. He is also on the Board of the Azim Premji Foundation.
Sambuddha Deb - Chief Global Delivery Officer, IT Business
Sambuddha Deb, the Chief Global Delivery Officer of Wipro, is responsible for leading Wipro's Delivery, Productivity, Six Sigma and Knowledge Management initiatives. He has been instrumental in leading Wipro through the PCMM Level 5 certification and the CMMi Level 5 certification. Deb has successfully led the integration of Six Sigma into software development processes at Wipro and also broad-basing Six Sigma application to different functional processes across Wipro Technologies. He has launched Lean methods in Software for Wipro over the last three years. During his tenure, Wipro became the first non-US company to receive IEEE award for software process improvements. Wipro has also been the ASIAN MAKE finalist for Best Knowledge Management for the last four years.
He has been the keynote speaker in International forums like IQPC, Gartner, Fabtech, World Data Mining Conference 2007 and International Association Product Developers symposium 2006. He was a speaker at JPMC's Lab Morgan Speaker series, and a guest speaker at Marshall School of Management, USC, Stern Business School, NYU, Harvard Business School and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
He has held various positions in Wipro, notably - Chief Executive - Corporate Vertical, Chief Executive - Manufacturing Vertical, Chief Quality Officer for Wipro Corporation.
He has an engineering degree from IIT, Kharagpur and a post graduation degree in management from IIM Ahmedabad. He has been in the Industry for the last 26 years, and has experience in software delivery, service, system Integration and sales.
Saurabh Govil - Senior Vice President - Human Resources, IT Business
Saurabh Govil is the Senior Vice President Human Resources and is responsible for the Talent Engagement,Talent Acquisition and Development initiatives across Wipro Technologies and is a member of the Management Team. He joined Wipro in May, 2009 and Saurabh has been a HR practitioner for over two decades, having worked in organizations such as ITC and GE.
Saurabh started his career as a management trainee at ITC Ltd. In his 12 year stint at ITC, Saurabh covered a variety of roles and went on to become the HR Head for the Tobacco Division, with responsibility for all its Manufacturing facilities.
He joined GE (GECIS) in 2001 as the Head HR for the Software Center of Excellence (CoE). In 2002, he became the HR Leader for all the IT businesses of GECIS. In 2004, Saurabh moved to GE Healthcare to head HR for the Asia Pacific business. In this role, he also provided HR leadership to the Wipro-GE Joint Venture. In his last role, Saurabh was the Director HR for GE Healthcare in the Middle East, Africa, Russia/CIS, Turkey and Central Asian countries and was based out of Dubai.
Saurabh is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur where he completed his masters in Human Resources.