Azim Premji

Azim Premji graduated in electrical engineering from Stanford University, USA and has been at the helm of Wipro Limited since the late 1960s, turning what was then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into close to $8 billion Revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with a presence in 58 countries, that it is today. The overall Wipro group revenues are $9 billion. Premji aims to build an organization that is deeply committed to values, with the firm belief that success in business eventually but inevitably follows. 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, and takes keen personal interest in developing leaders and teams. Wipro’s business success has been driven by keeping the customer at the core of everything it does. Combining its deep expertise in technology with an equally clear understanding of customer industries, Wipro attempts to deliver business value to customers consistently. The consistency is driven by its pioneering efforts in service quality and predictability, through methodologies like Six Sigma, PCMM and Lean. The underlying tenets that drive this overall culture are that of speed, simplicity and excellence. Premji firmly believes that business organizations have a social responsibility not only to employ ethical, fair and ecologically sensitive business practices but also to actively engage with fundamental societal issues. Wipro Applying Thought in Schools and Wipro STEM Fellowships are initiatives deeply involved in trying to improve quality of school education, while the Wipro Cares program engages with local community causes. Mission 10X works to improve quality of engineering college education.