Industry Titans Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro Indian tech magnate Azim Premji’s Wipro, with a revenue of $11.3bn, stands among the country’s largest software services providers. Premji left his studies at Stanford in 1966 to take over the family’s cooking oil business following his father’s death and successfully expanded it into the software industry during the country’s tech revolution. Premji transformed a $2m hydrogenated cooking fat company into a global IT, BPO, and R&D services organisation with over $10bn in revenue and a presence in 66 countries. Wipro now has an innovation centre in Silicon Valley, focusing on developing new technologies and collaborating with startups. In 2019, Azim Premji’s son, Rishad, succeeded him as Wipro’s executive chairman, while Premji remains the founder chairman. Other Wipro companies led by Premji generate nearly $2bn in sectors such as consumer goods, precision engineering, and healthcare systems. You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia