Our Chairman Azim H. Premji, Sr. 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 been at the helm of Wipro Limited since his return from Stanford University in the late 1960's, turning what was then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into the $ 7.3 billion revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with a presence in 54 countries, that it is today.
Premji started at Wipro driven by one basic idea - to build an organization which was deeply committed to Values, in the firm belief that success in business would eventually but inevitably follow. Unflinching commitment to Values continues to remain at the core of Wipro. Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things when organized into highly charged teams. He takes keen personal interest in developing leaders and teams and invests significant time as faculty in Wipro's leadership development programs.
The Wipro brand promise of "Applying Thought", the driving force for delivering value for customers and the heart of its business success, has driven Wipro's pioneering efforts in Quality, culminating in the "Wipro Way". This integrates the methods and practices of Six Sigma, PCMM, CMMi and Lean and drives Wipro's focus on applying Innovation for direct customer benefits - improving their time-to-market, enhancing their predictability & reliability and helping cut costs.
Premji is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility which must be discharged not only through ethical, fair and ecologically sustainable business practices and in weaving ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its organization, but also by active involvement in fundamental societal issues. Wipro is deeply involved in trying to improve Quality of school education through its "Wipro Applying Thought in Schools" initiative and in local community causes through its "Wipro Cares" program.
In the year 2001, Premji established the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with a vision of significantly contributing to improving quality and equity in school education in India, to build a better society. The financial resources to this foundation have been personally contributed by Premji. The work of the Azim Premji Foundation straddles key aspects of the public education system, from policy to capacity development of teachers. Today it works with school systems of 7 states, which have over 300,000 schools. The Foundation operates through a network of institutions that it has set up and runs; this includes a University, multiple field level institutions and schools, all focused on improvement in Education in India and related issues of Development.
Over the years, Azim Premji has received many honors and accolades, which he believes are recognitions for Team Wipro. Business Week which featured him on their cover with the sobriquet "India's Tech King" in October 2003, listed him amongst the top 30 entrepreneurs in world history in July 2007. Financial Times included him in a global list of 25 people "dramatically reshaping the way people live, work or think" (October 2005), and who have done most to bring about significant and lasting changes (November 2004). Time listed him amongst the 100 most influential people in the world (April 2004, April 2011), citing his contribution to improving the public education system in India. He was named by Fortune (August 2003) as one of the 25 most powerful business leaders outside the US, listed by Forbes (March 2003) as one of ten people globally with most "power to effect change" and by the Journal of Foreign Policy (November 2011) as amongst the top global thinkers. Premji became the first Indian recipient of the Faraday Medal and has been conferred with honorary doctorates by Wesleyan University, USA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Roorkee amongst others.
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 and also a member of the Indo-UK and the Indo-France CEOs' forum. In January 2011, the Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Vibhushan, one of its highest civilian awards and the Republic of France bestowed upon him the "Legion of Honor". In November 2012, Forbes India honored him as "Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year'.
Azim Premji is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.
Executive Directors
T K Kurien - CEO & Executive Director, Wipro Ltd.
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer 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 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
Dr. Ashok S. Ganguly
Dr. Ganguly has served as a director on our Board since 1999. He is the Chairman of our Board Governance & Nomination Committee and Compensation Committee. He is currently the Chairman of ABP Pvt. Ltd (Ananda Bazar Patrika Group). Dr. Ganguly also currently serves as a non-executive director of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited and Dr. Reddy Laboratories Limited. Dr. Ganguly is on the advisory board of Diageo India Private Limited. Dr. Ganguly is the chairman of Research and Development Committee of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, Member of Nomination, Governance & Compensation Committee and Chairman of Science, Technology & Operations Committee of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry and the India-USA CEO Council, established by the Prime Minister of India and the President of the USA. Dr. Ganguly is a Rajya Sabha Member. He is a former member of the Board of British Airways Plc (1996-2005) and Unilever Plc/NV (1990-97) and a Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited (1980-90). Dr. Ganguly was on the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (2000-2009). In 2006, Dr. Ganguly was awarded the CBE (Hon) by the United Kingdom. In 2008, Dr. Ganguly received the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Ganguly received the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in January 1987 and the Padma Vibhushan award in January 2009.
B. C. Prabhakar
Mr. Prabhakar has served as a director on our Board since February 1997. He has been a practicing lawyer since April 1970. Mr. Prabhakar holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology and a BL. from Mysore University, India. Mr. Prabhakar serves as a non-executive director of Automotive Axles Limited and 3M India Limited. He is also a member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee and Chairman of the Administrative and Shareholder Investor Grievances Committee of Wipro Limited.
Dr. Henning Kagermann
Dr. Kagermann became a director of the Company on October 27, 2009. He served as Chief Executive officer of SAP AG until 2009. He has been a member of the SAP Executive Board since 1991. He is also President of Acatech (GermanAcademy of Science and Technology) and currently a member of supervisory boards of Deutsche Bank AG, Munich Re, Deutsche Post, BMW Group in Germany and Nokia. Dr. Kagermann is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth
Dr. Sheth has served as a director on our Board since January 1999. Dr. Sheth has been a professor at Emory University since July 1991. Previously, Dr. Sheth served on the faculty of Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, and the University of Southern California. Dr. Sheth also serves on the board of Manipal Acunova Ltd. Dr. Sheth holds a B.Com (Honors) from Madras University, a M.B.A. and a Ph.D in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sheth is also the Chairman of Academy of Indian
Marketing Professionals.
M. K. Sharma
Mr. Sharma became a director of the Company on July 1, 2011. He is a member of our Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee. He served as Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited from 2000 to 2007. He served as a whole-time director of Hindustan Unilever Limited from 1995 to 2000. He is currently on the boards of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Limited, Fulford India Limited (Indian affiliate of MSD), Thomas Cook (India) Limited, Birla Corporation Limited, KEC International Limited and The Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Limited. Mr.Sharma is a member of the Audit Committee of Fulford (India) Limited and Thomas Cook (India) Limited. Mr.Sharma is the Chairman of Remuneration Committee of Fulford (India) Limited. Mr. Sharma is a member the Shareholder’s Grievance Committee of Thomas Cook (India) Limited. Mr. Sharma is the Chairman of the Board
Governance and Nomination Committee, Compensation Committee of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Limited.
Narayanan Vaghul
Mr. Vaghul has served as a director on our Board since June 1997. He is the Chairman of our Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee, a member of the Board Governance & Nomination Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. He was the Chairman of the Board of ICICI Bank Limited from September 1985 to April 2009. Mr. Vaghul is also on the Boards of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., Mahindra World City Developers Limited, Piramal Healthcare Limited, and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited. Mr. Vaghul is on the boards of Hemogenomics Pvt. Ltd., Universal Trustees Pvt. Ltd., and IKP Trusteeship Services Limited. Mr. Vaghul is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Mahindra and Mahindra Limited and Piramal Healthcare Limited. Mr. Vaghul is also a member of the Audit Committee in Nicholas Piramal India Limited. Mr. Vaghul is a member of the Remuneration Committee of Mahindra World City Developers Limited and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited. Mr. Vaghul is also the lead independent director of our Company. Mr. Vaghul holds Bachelor (Honors) degree in Commerce from Madras University. Mr. Vaghul was the recipient of the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in 2010. Mr. Vaghul also received the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
Priya Mohan Sinha
Mr. Sinha became a director of our Company on January 1, 2002. He is a member of our Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee, Board Governance & Nomination Committee and Compensation Committee. 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 (currently Hindustan Unilever Limited). From 1981 to 1985, he also served as Sales Director of Hindustan Lever Limited (currently Hindustan Unilever Limited). Currently, he is also on the board of Lafarge India Private Limited. He is also a member of Audit and Board and Governance Committee Lafarge India Private Limited. He was also the Chairman of Reckitt Coleman India Limited and Chairman of Stephan Chemicals India Limited. Mr. Sinha is also on the Advisory Board of Rieter India. Mr. Sinha holds a Bachelor of Arts from Patna University, and he has also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shyam Saran
Mr. Saran became a director of our Company on July 1, 2010. He has been a director of Indian Oil Corporation Limited since March 2012. He is a career diplomat who has served in significant positions in the Indian government for over three decades. He joined Indian Foreign Service in 1970. 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 of the Government of India from 2004 to 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, U.S.A. Mr. Saran holds a Post Graduate degree in Economics. Mr. Saran has been honored with the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India for his contribution in civil services.
Vyomesh Joshi
Mr. Vyomesh Joshi joined the Wipro Board of Directors in October 2012. Currently, he is also a member of Dean's Advisory Council at The Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego.
Prior to joining Wipro, Mr. Joshi served as the Executive Vice President of Hewlett-Packard's Imaging and Printing Group. He joined Hewlett-Packard as a Research & Development engineer and held various management positions in his 32-year career with the group. Mr. Joshi was also on the Board of Yahoo! for 7 years until 2012.
Mr. Joshi has featured in Fortune's diversity list of most influential people in 2005. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University.
William Arthur Owens
Mr. Owens has served as a director on our Board since July 1, 2006. He is also a member of the Board Governance and Nomination Committee. He has held a number of senior leadership positions at large multinational corporations. From April 2004 to November 2005, Mr. Owens 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, Mr. Owens 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, Mr. Owens 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, Mr. Owens serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Polycom Inc., Intelius, Flow Mobile, Prometheus, and Chairman of Century Link Inc., a communications company. Mr. Owens holds an M.B.A. (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.
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 been at the helm of Wipro Limited since his return from Stanford University in the late 1960's, turning what was then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into the $ 7.3 billion revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with a presence in 54 countries, that it is today.
Premji started at Wipro driven by one basic idea - to build an organization which was deeply committed to Values, in the firm belief that success in business would eventually but inevitably follow. Unflinching commitment to Values continues to remain at the core of Wipro. Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things when organized into highly charged teams. He takes keen personal interest in developing leaders and teams and invests significant time as faculty in Wipro's leadership development programs.
The Wipro brand promise of "Applying Thought", the driving force for delivering value for customers and the heart of its business success, has driven Wipro's pioneering efforts in Quality, culminating in the "Wipro Way". This integrates the methods and practices of Six Sigma, PCMM, CMMi and Lean and drives Wipro's focus on applying Innovation for direct customer benefits - improving their time-to-market, enhancing their predictability & reliability and helping cut costs.
Premji is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility which must be discharged not only through ethical, fair and ecologically sustainable business practices and in weaving ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its organization, but also by active involvement in fundamental societal issues. Wipro is deeply involved in trying to improve Quality of school education through its "Wipro Applying Thought in Schools" initiative and in local community causes through its "Wipro Cares" program.
In the year 2001, Premji established the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with a vision of significantly contributing to improving quality and equity in school education in India, to build a better society. The financial resources to this foundation have been personally contributed by Premji. The work of the Azim Premji Foundation straddles key aspects of the public education system, from policy to capacity development of teachers. Today it works with school systems of 7 states, which have over 300,000 schools. The Foundation operates through a network of institutions that it has set up and runs; this includes a University, multiple field level institutions and schools, all focused on improvement in Education in India and related issues of Development.
Over the years, Azim Premji has received many honors and accolades, which he believes are recognitions for Team Wipro. Business Week which featured him on their cover with the sobriquet "India's Tech King" in October 2003, listed him amongst the top 30 entrepreneurs in world history in July 2007. Financial Times included him in a global list of 25 people "dramatically reshaping the way people live, work or think" (October 2005), and who have done most to bring about significant and lasting changes (November 2004). Time listed him amongst the 100 most influential people in the world (April 2004, April 2011), citing his contribution to improving the public education system in India. He was named by Fortune (August 2003) as one of the 25 most powerful business leaders outside the US, listed by Forbes (March 2003) as one of ten people globally with most "power to effect change" and by the Journal of Foreign Policy (November 2011) as amongst the top global thinkers. Premji became the first Indian recipient of the Faraday Medal and has been conferred with honorary doctorates by Wesleyan University, USA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Roorkee amongst others.
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 and also a member of the Indo-UK and the Indo-France CEOs' forum. In January 2011, the Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Vibhushan, one of its highest civilian awards and the Republic of France bestowed upon him the "Legion of Honor". In November 2012, Forbes India honored him as "Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year'.
Azim Premji is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.
Suresh C Senapaty - Executive Director & Chief Finance Officer
Suresh Senapaty heads 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 & Executive Director, Wipro Ltd.
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer 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 Ltd.
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 Ltd.
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.
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 & Executive Director, Wipro Ltd.
T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer 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 Sr. 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, Media & Telecom
Ayan Mukerji is the Sr. Vice President 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 Sr. 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 is the Sr. Vice President (SVP) and Head of Wipro's global IT business strategic business unit - which is focused on delivering business value through strategic solutions to Healthcare and Life sciences industry.
In her current role, she is leading Healthcare & Life Sciences business unit with the vision of becoming the business value enabler to its client and becoming a billion dollar business unit within Wipro by 2015. Towards the same, she has outlined the strategic themes of "revitalizing innovation", "ensuring patient centricity", "enhancing sales and commercial effectiveness", "staying compliant" & "streamline & simplify IT systems and business processes".
Christened as the 'Outsourcing Wunderkid' by the Time magazine and a recipient of Stevie Award for "Best Asian Woman Executive" and "Excellence in Information Technology" award by FLO, the women's wing of FICCI, she believes that this is the time for convergence in Healthcare and Life sciences business. Her perspectives on 'Accountable Care and Analytics at its Core' published in Knowledge@Wharton have received great reviews by industry and analysts alike.
In her 20+ years at Wipro, Sangita has spearheaded multiple top management roles including SVP and Head of Enterprise Applications Services (EAS) - one of largest technology service line of Wipro's global IT business with a revenue run rate of over 700 million USD and Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Wipro's Global - IT business, where she was instrumental in establishing Wipro's brand as a leading IT service provider globally.
Sangita has been credited with several strategic business achievements both within and outside the organization. In her six year association with EAS service line, Sangita had driven EAS to be one of the fastest growing within Wipro's - Global IT business. Under her leadership, EAS service line innovated the non-linear service delivery model. Also, she was instrumental in elevating Wipro's partnership stature as the global services partner of world's leading technology firms - Oracle and SAP. Under her leadership as the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Wipro, Wipro was awarded the IDC CMO global best practices award and ITSMA (IT Services Marketing association) Services Marketing Excellence award.
Sangita is passionate about nurturing People Engagement and Diversity and has been the executive sponsor for Wipro's diversity initiatives. She has represented Wipro and championed the diversity cause in multiple global forums, including World Economic Forum at Davos, Fortune Women's Forum, FICCI, NASSCOM, Cisco-CEO Forum. She has also evangelized a global people-engagement & knowledge harnessing program though collaboration (leveraging web 2.0 technologies & Social Media) which has been a benchmark within the organization.
Sangita holds an engineering degree from Regional Engineering College-Durgapur and is currently based out of Bangalore, India.
Soumitro Ghosh is Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Financial Services business unit at Wipro. He has been leading this unit since 2008 and has grown it into a 1.6B$ business. It is the largest business unit of the company with a share of 27% and 30,000+ strong team. He was one of the founding members of this unit in 2000.
Over the last decade he has successfully built three verticals as a part of this business unit covering the global markets of Insurance, Retail Banking and Securities & Capital Markets. Under his leadership the unit has won over 75 customers globally and transformed five of them into 100M$ plus relationships. These marquee accounts also count among Wipro's top 10 clients. The rich portfolio of customers includes the Top 10 in their respective industry segments. He has also invested in building a strong team of over 1000 industry consultants who provide industry advisory & domain consulting services and build business centric solutions. He strongly believes that innovation that is relevant to business will always have demand be it downturn or times of growth.
In over 25 years of his stint with Wipro he has played several key roles including Global Head of Marketing , Global Head of the Ecommerce Division and Head of the Sun Microsystems Products business in the Indian domestic market. Prior to Wipro he worked for three years each in Hewlett Packard and Guest Keen Williams.
He has also been instrumental in three acquisitions in Wipro and successfully integrated and grown them. He believes in building strong teams that stay together and share the same sense of passion and vision. He is one of the key leaders who have mentored many leaders at Wipro with his people centric leadership style.
He is passionate about sports specially cricket and like reading in his spare time. He has been a thought leader in the industry and is a much sought after speaker in industry forums.
He is Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and an MBA from Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Pilani and graduated in 1982.
Srini Pallia - Sr. Vice President & Global Head - Retail, Consumer Goods,
Transportation & Govt. Business Unit
Srini is the Sr. Vice President and Head for the Strategic Business Unit which serves clients in Retail, Consumer Goods, 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 over 21 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 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.
Service Lines
Anand Sankaran - Sr. Vice President - Wipro Infotech and Global
Infrastructure Services
Anand Sankaran is the Sr. Vice President - Wipro Infotech and Global Infrastructure Services. 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 23 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.
K. R. Sanjiv - Sr. Vice President, Analytics & Information Management Services
K. R. Sanjiv is the Sr. Vice President and Global Head of 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 25 years of enterprise IT experience, including consulting, application and technology development spanning 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.
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.
Manoj Punja - Sr. Vice President, Wipro BPO
Manoj Punja is the Sr. Vice President - Wipro BPO. In his earlier position he was Chief Sales and Operations Officer for Latin America & Focus Countries. Prior to this he was heading Wipro Eco Energy US Geo operations & he was Chief Sales & Operations Officer for Americas. 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 Bachelor's Degree Engineering in Electronics from Bangalore University.
G. K. Prasanna - Sr. Vice President, Product Engineering Solutions and EcoEnergy
G.K. Prasanna is responsible for Wipro's Product Engineering Solutions and Wipro EcoEnergy.
Wipro is a global leader in Engineering R&D services with solutions for manufacturing, media, telecom, technology, healthcare, energy & utilities, banking and retail industries. EcoEnergy is the recently formed Clean Tech business division of Wipro, with a vision to create and manage sustainable energy solutions and infrastructure worldwide.
Prior to this role, Prasanna was Sr. 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 30 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.
Shaji heads the Advanced Technologies service line at Wipro, created to exploit the transformational opportunities at the intersection of cloud, analytics, mobility, and high-performance technologies. The Integrated Cloud, Mobility, Analytics-as-a-Service, High Performance Technologies, and Advanced Technologies Consulting groups comprise this service line. Shaji also heads Wipro's Global Alliances with strategic technology partners. In this role, he is responsible for further strengthening Wipro's strategic alliances, and driving business with Wipro’s global partners.
Additionally, Shaji is responsible for global transformation of Wipro's Go-to-Market strategy. In this role, Shaji will drive a unified approach across Sales Force Enablement and Strategic Marketing functions to improve Wipro’s sales and marketing effectiveness.
Prior to joining Wipro, Shaji held several senior positions - most recently at Infosys, he was SVP & Global Head, Consulting & Systems Integration across FSI, and Head, Banking & Capital Markets for the Americas. Shaji has over 24 years of professional experience. His areas of expertise include Business & IT Strategy, Business Process Redesign, and Business Value Realization, with significant focus on the Financial Services and High Tech Industries. He has managed large teams, and has been an active contributor to innovation and thought leadership. Shaji holds 40 technology patents.
Shaji has an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU, a Ph.D. in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is based out of New York.
Business Divisions
Anand Sankaran - Sr. Vice President - Wipro Infotech and Global
Infrastructure Services
Anand Sankaran is the Sr. Vice President - Wipro Infotech and Global Infrastructure Services. 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 23 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, Product Engineering Solutions and EcoEnergy
G.K. Prasanna is responsible for Wipro's Product Engineering Solutions and Wipro EcoEnergy.
Wipro is a global leader in Engineering R&D services with solutions for manufacturing, media, telecom, technology, healthcare, energy & utilities, banking and retail industries. EcoEnergy is the recently formed Clean Tech business division of Wipro, with a vision to create and manage sustainable energy solutions and infrastructure worldwide.
Prior to this role, Prasanna was Sr. 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 30 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.
Rajat Mathur is Chief Sales and Operations Officer - Growth Markets for Wipro Technologies. The growth markets include France, Germany, Asia-Pacific, Japan, China, Africa and South America. As part of the management team, Rajat is responsible the P&L, strategy and operations in these geographies and maintains a sharp focus on long-term revenue growth. In this role he reports to the CEO of Wipro's Global IT Business.
Prior to this, Rajat was Chief Sales and Operations Officer - Asia-Pacific, Japan & China. Under his leadership, Wipro's Asia-Pacific business was one the fastest growing segments within the organization.
Rajat has worked with Wipro IT Business from very nearly its inception, in various business development and leadership roles. He had launched Wipro’s software business in India which now has revenues of over INR 5 bn. He also started Wipro’s IT business in the Middle-East which today commands a leadership position in the region.
Rajat has successfully spearheaded multiple portfolios within the organization and enabled bi-directional diversification in terms of industry verticals. He has played a key role in Wipro's accelerated growth in key geographies and business lines.
Rajat has championed the Six Sigma Program and principally contributed to Wipro’s Business Solutions Division obtaining the CMMI Level 5 Certification.
Rajat is a media and analyst spokesperson for Wipro and a keynote speaker at leading industry conferences. He has represented Wipro at events organized by NASSCOM, FICCI, CII, among others.
Rajat has also chaired the software track of the Telecom Summit of India. Besides, he was a member of the NASSCOM Sub-committee for Development of IT Services for the SMB Sector.
Rajat holds a master's degree from Podar Institute of Management, Jaipur and a bachelor's degree in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.
Function
Alexis Samuel - Chief Process Officer, Wipro Ltd.
As the Chief Process officer of Wipro Limited, Alexis Samuel leads the Business Process Transformation program (BPT) across the enterprise with a sharp focus on Wipro Technologies. He reports to the CEO (T.K. Kurien) and CFO (Suresh Senapaty)
In this role, he anchors the vision of Transforming and deploying consistent business processes that are scalable across the globe, with a view to simplify, automate, Integrate, increase the emphasis on primary controls, reduce dependence on secondary controls, eliminate redundancies, and reduce the layers of approvals.
In his earlier role as Chief Risk Officer and Ombuds person of Wipro Limited, he led a competent team in creating a robust Risk function and an effective and Ombuds Process across the globe.
Alexis has 22 years of work experience across different industry segments. He has played diverse roles across different business units in his last 14 years of association with Wipro. He has held senior management positions as Central engineering and 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. His prior stint was with Eveready industries (formerly Union Carbide).
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai. He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School.
Alexis also has participatory research interests with faculty in Harvard, and UNC 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.
Dr. Anurag Srivastava - Sr. Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Anurag Srivastava is the Sr. Vice President & Chief Technology Officer 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. - Chief Business Operations Officer
Bhanumurthy BM (Bhanu) is Chief Business Operations Officer of Wipro's IT Business. With over 20 years of global diversified experience, Bhanu has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Wipro's businesses successfully. In his current role, he is responsible for strategic direction and growth of Wipro's application services business as well as business operations which includes Global Delivery, Information Services, Quality and Knowledge Management.
Business Application Services is by far the largest service line for Wipro, by revenues. It offers integrated business solutions that span the application and technology landscape, from enterprise applications, digital transformation services to security solutions and testing. Under Bhanu's leadership, the services and solutions offered by Wipro's application services practices create the edge organizations must have to assert their competitiveness in their markets - a combination of global, forward-thinking strategies and high-impact technology solutions to support them.
Prior to his current role, Bhanu was head of Retail, Consumer Goods, Transportation & Government (RCTG) businesses, which he built and nurtured for over a decade. He is a strategic thinker and leader with deep understanding of the market and the customer's business, technology, processes and systems.
Bhanu is reputed for his strong work ethic. He is result-oriented, adaptive and has a positive attitude to change. He is known for his 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.
Bhanu holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and a degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal.
Inderpreet Sawhney - Sr. Vice President & General Counsel, Wipro Ltd.
Inderpreet Sawhney is the Sr. Vice President & General Counsel for Wipro Limited. She is responsible for overseeing the legal affairs of Wipro globally.
Inderpreet has 20 years of international legal experience having worked both in India and the US. Prior to joining Wipro, she served as Managing Partner of a midsized law firm in 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 this, Sawhney 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, Inderpreet 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 US.
Inderpreet has a BA (Hons.) and LL.B degree from Delhi University and an LL.M from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Jatin Dalal - Chief Financial Officer
Jatin is the Chief Financial Officer for 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 before becoming the CFO of IT Business, Jatin was based in UK as the Head of Finance for Europe and the Global Finance Head for its two Business Units (ENU and Manufacturing & Hi Tech), responsible for the profitability and overall finance and commercial support for these units.
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, India and Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), UK. He also holds Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) with a specialization in Finance and International Business from NMIMS, India.
Ravi Kiran Vadapally - Chief Risk officer, Wipro Ltd.
As a Chief Risk Officer, Wipro Limited, Ravi KiranVadapally has the mandate to assess and mitigate risks – Strategic and Operational - across the organization. He reports to the CFO-Wipro Limited and CEO-IT Business. He is also the Ombuds person for the Corporation and reports to the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board in this role.
Ravi has around 14 years of total experience in the industry. He joined Wipro as a fresh Chartered Accountant in 1998 and had successful stints in diverse roles spanning Internal Audit, Business Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis. Over the years, Ravi contributed significantly in developing a world-class FP&A team, streamlining of supply chain processes as Business Finance Manager for Global Delivery Organization, driving central initiatives around Cost Management as well as in grooming top talent in Finance function. In his last role as Head of Internal Audit, Ravi provided excellent leadership to the function. He contributed significantly in ensuring the reliability and integrity of operational processes & financial information as well as compliance with key company policies and regulations.
Ravi is a commerce graduate from Osmania University and an Associate member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Rishad Premji - Chief Strategy Officer
Rishad Premji is Chief Strategy Officer of Wipro's IT Business. In this role he is responsible for Wipro's Global IT Strategy.
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).
In the BFSI space, Rishad also spearheaded the integration of Citi Technology Services following Wipro's acquisition of the Citibank captive in the application and infrastructure space. He later 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.
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. He 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. He 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 and Wipro GE.
Satishchandra D - Sr. Vice President - Global Transformation
Satishchandra Doreswamy, known as "Satish" is a Sr. Vice President at Wipro Technologies and heads the Global Transformation charter. His areas of focus are building capabilities around business transformation driving large/strategic transformation deals, enriching client centricity, establishing domain leadership and inducting next generation tools, processes & practices.
Prior to joining Wipro, Satish had a long and successful stint at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) where he held the position of Vice President and Global Head for Infrastructure Services. Prior to this role, Satish spearheaded Banking and Financial Services delivery from Bangalore and was also responsible for setting up BPO Operations at TCS. Satish has vast experience in managing large and strategic customer relationships across industry verticals and has anchored some of the large outsourcing deals for TCS.
Satish started his career with TCS; and later moved on to set up the Captive Centre of a US based wealth management company (Phoenix Global Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.) which was acquired by TCS. Subsequent to the acquisition, Satish headed the TCS subsidiary as the Executive Director.
An industry veteran with more than two decades of experience, Satish has provided leadership across strategy, merger & acquisitions, sales, delivery and operations.
Satish holds an engineering degree from Bangalore University. An avid nature and wildlife photographer, Satish spends his leisure time in nature trails.
Saurabh Govil - Sr. Vice President - Human Resources
Saurabh Govil is the Sr. 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.