Azim Premji

Azim Premji General Information

Biography

Mr. Azim Premji serves as a Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director. He was the Owner of Premji Invest. The overall Wipro group revenues are $ 8 billion. Premji has been driven by one basic idea - to build an organization deeply committed to Values, with the firm belief that business success 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 a 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 " (in India) and "Wipro STEM Fellowships" (in the US) are initiatives deeply involved in trying to improve the quality of school education, while the "Wipro Cares" program engages with local community causes. Mission 10X works to improve the quality of engineering college education. In 2001, Premji established and personally endowed the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, with a vision of enhancing quality and equity in the public school education system in India, to build a better society. The Azim Premji Foundation works in 7 states of India which have over 300,000 schools. In 2011, the Foundation established the Azim Premji University, which is focused on teaching and research programs in Education and other areas of Human Development. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.