Company: WIT
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-076303
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Company: WIPRO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 champions Wipro’s values, known as the Spirit of Wipro.
He serves on the boards of Wipro Enterprises and Wipro-GE Healthcare, among others, and the Azim Premji Foundation, which works to improve public school education, healthcare, and livelihoods across several Indian states. He also holds directorships across various Azim Premji philanthropic entities.
From 2018-19, Mr. Rishad Premji served as Chairman of NASSCOM, the trade body representing India’s technology industry. Before Wipro, he worked with Bain & Company in London and GE Capital in the US. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University.
Azim H. Premji is the Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director of the Company (the “Founder Chairman”) since July 31, 2019. Mr. Premji was the Chairman of the Company until July 30, 2019, and has been at its helm since the late 1960s, turning what was then a small cooking fat company into a U.S.$ 10.5 billion revenue group with businesses in IT, Consulting and Business Process Services with a presence in 65 countries. Mr. Premji also serves as Chairman of Wipro Enterprises (P) Limited and as a director of Wipro GE Healthcare Private Limited and in other entities of the promoter group. Mr. Premji has established the Azim Premji Foundation and its related entities, which do extensive philanthropic work in India. The work spans from deep-on-the-ground efforts focused on improving public school education, working directly in seven states of India which have over 350,000 schools, to running the not-for-profit Azim Premji University which is focused on programs in education and related fields of human development and providing support through multi-year financial grants to other not-for-profit organizations working in specific areas such as reduction of child stunting, improvement of local governance and alleviation of the conditions of the most vulnerable groups.

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Over the years, Mr. Premji has received numerous honors and accolades, which he considers to be recognitions for Wipro and the Foundation teams. BusinessWeek listed him amongst the top 30 entrepreneurs in world history. Financial Times, Time, Fortune and Forbes have all named him as of one the most influential people in the world, citing his leadership in business and philanthropy, including the contributions to improving public education. The Journal of Foreign Policy listed him amongst the top global thinkers. Economic Times