Title: Wipro
Content:  On 6 July 2020, Thierry Delaporte took over from Abidali Neemuchwala as the new CEO of Wipro. Abidali Neemuchwala was appointed as Wipro's CEO after T. K. Kurien stepped down in early 2016. Neemuchwala, who had been group president and CEO from April 2015, was appointed CEO with effect from 1 February 2016.
Title: Abidali Neemuchwala
Content:  Abidali Neemuchwala (born December 8, 1967) is an Indian business executive. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) of Wipro from February 2016 to June 2020. On January 31, 2020, Wipro announced that he would be stepping down due to family commitments, once a successor is appointed. Neemuchwala, who had been group president and chief operating officer (COO) of Wipro from April 2015, was appointed CEO with effect from February 1, 2016. He previously was the CEO of the BPO division of Tata Consultancy Services Limited.
Title: Abidali Neemuchwala
Content:  Neemuchwala was appointed group president and COO in April 2015. As the COO, Neemuchwala spearheaded several initiatives that helped create a more nimble and agile organization, and accelerated Wipro's ability to not only respond to customers in the digital age, but also ensure deeper employee engagement. On February 1, 2016, he was appointed CEO and executive director of Wipro succeeding T.K. Kurien. As CEO, Neemuchwala oversees $8 billion in revenue and more than 160,000 employees serving clients across six continents. In September 2018, Neemuchwala helped land Wipro its largest deal ever with a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract with Alight Solutions. In July 2019, he was appointed managing director (MD) of Wipro following the retirement of Azim Premji. He is on the board of directors of Wipro Limited and the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. He sits on the CEO Council of the Texas Economic Development Corporation. On January 31, 2020, Wipro announced that Neemuchwala would be stepping down due to family commitments, once a successor is appointed. On May 30, 2020, Wipro appointed former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte as its CEO.
Title: Vivek Paul
Content:  In 1999, Paul was asked to become Vice Chairman of Wipro and CEO of its outsourcing unit. Wipro was a $150-million company when Vivek Paul took over, and it had all the tendencies of a small, traditional company. Paul has been credited with creating a global business and for much of Wipro's growth into a multibillion-dollar company. On October 19, 2000, Wipro was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Paul was recognized as among the top 6 managers in the world by Jack Welch in one of his books, as well as by several business magazines.
Title: Azim Premji
Content:  Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman, investor, engineer, and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry. In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by Time magazine, once in 2004 and more recently 
Title: Vivek Paul
Content:  Vivek Paul (born 1958) is an Indian American businessman who is currently an adjunct professor at Stanford University. . He formerly served as CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wipro Limited. He is acknowledged to be a leading force in building Wipro Technologies from a $150 million software business to a $1.4 billion entity. His career included spells as a public company CEO, investor and entrepreneur. Ten of his direct reports have gone on to become public company CEO's. He has served on the Boards of several companies as well as non-profit organizations. He was part of the team of a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), that did a successful IPO on the NASDAQ.
Title: Wipro
Content:  In March 2021, Wipro acquired Capco, a 22-year-old British tech consultancy firm. The deal was completed in April. Wipro has signed an agreement to acquire Ampion for a cash consideration of $117 million, according to an exchange filing. In March 2021, Wipro appoints Pierre Bruno as CEO of European operations. In June 2021, Wipro acquired Boeing supplier TECT Aerospace Group Holdings for $31 million. In December 2021, Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeanSwift, a system integrator of Infor products for customers across the Americas and Europe. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of the quarter ending March 31, 2022, Wipro stated in a BSE filing.
Title: Wipro
Content:  The company was incorporated on 29 December 1945 in Amalner, India, by Mohamed Premji as "Western India Products", later abbreviated to "Wipro". It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, Maharashtra, British India, under the trade names of Kisan, Sunflower, and Camel. In 1966, after Mohamed Premji's death, his son Azim Premji took over Wipro as its chairman at the age of 21. During the 1970s and 1975 the company shifted its focus to new opportunities in the IT and computing industry, which was at a nascent stage in India at the time. On 7 June 1977, the name of the company changed from Western India Vegetable Products Limited, to Wipro Products Limited. In 1982, the name was changed again, from Wipro Products Limited to Wipro Limited. Wipro continued to expand in the consumer products domain with the launch of "Ralak" a Tulsi based family soap and "Wipro Jasmine", a toilet soap.
Title: A. L. Rao
Content:  A. Lakshman Rao is the former Chief Operating Officer of Wipro Technologies. Rao joined Wipro's Information Technology business as a founder member in 1980 and contributed significantly towards building a R&D team. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as Vice President (Technical) at Wipro Systems and played an important role in building competence in Client/Server and Object technologies. During this period, he was instrumental in building a number of business practices from scratch. Testing services, business intelligence, data warehousing and e-Enabling are some of them. As group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Wipro from 1996–1999, he implemented ISO 9000 compliant quality processes across the Software Divisions of Infotech Group. He has also driven the SEI CMM initiative enabling Wipro to 
Title: Rishad Premji
Content:  Rishad Premji is the son of the Wipro head Azim Premji and was named as the successor of his father. He was until recently the Chief Strategy Officer at Wipro and has taken over as Chairman of Wipro in July 2019. He was the Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2018–19.

Question: who become ceo of wipro company in 2016?
Answer: Abid Ali Neemuchwala.