Azim premji, WIPRO, CEO Presented by Rakesh.

Azim Premji (Gujarati: born July 24, 1945) is an Indian business

tycoon, philanthropist, and chairman of Wipro, a software company. He is most often known as Indian Bill Gates. According to Forbes, he is currently the second richest Indian with a personal wealth of US$17 billion in 2010. The World's Billionaire. Forbes. March 3, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-16. In 2000, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asia week. He was also among the 50 richest people in the world from 2001 to 2003 according to Forbes. In April

2004, he was rated among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time
magazine. His assets include 74% of Wipro, the remaining 26% belonging to the cofounder of Wipro. Premji is now the chairman of Wipro. Wipro grew from a company of US $2.5 million to a giant of $1.4 billion under Premji's leadership. Premji's company dealt in hydrogenated cooking fats, along with consumer products. Now, however Wipro is one of India's largest software companies and is ranked among the top 100 technology companies globally.

 Premji father M. H. Premji owned the Western India Vegetable Product

Company (which later became Wipro Ltd.) which made hydrogenated vegetable oils and fats. His grandfather was the rice king of Burma. While he completed his initial education at St. Mary's School, Mumbai, Premji was forced to leave his studies in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, USA at the age of 21 to take over the family business when his father, M.H. Premji, suddenly died in 1966. He has since after a gap of

over thirty years completed his degree in Electrical Engineering.

Wipro dealt in hydrogenated cooking fats and later diversified to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products, and hydraulic cylinders. There after Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.

 The Amalner-based vanaspathi manufacturing company, the Western India

Vegetable Product later became Wipro Products Ltd, Wipro Technologies and Wipro Corporation. Under Premjis leadership Wipro embarked on an ambitious phase of expansion and diversification. The Company began manufacturing light bulbs with General Electric and other consumer products including soaps, baby care products, shampoos, powder etc.

In 1975, Wipro Fluid Power business unit manufacturing hydraulic cylinders and
truck tippers was started. But Premjis ambitions did not stop there. In the 1980s Wipro entered the IT field, taking advantage of the expulsion of IBM from the Indian market in 1975. Thus, Wipro became involved in manufacturing computer hardware, software development and related items, under a special license from Sentinel.

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Azim Premji Foundation Programmes of the Azim Premji Foundation focus on "creating effective and scalable models that significantly improve the quality of learning in the school and ensure satisfactory ownership by the community in the management of the school".

Azim Premji Foundation says it "dedicates itself to the cause of Universalization of

Elementary Education in India". Citing a technology initiative, the Foundation reported: "Think of a single PC with three display terminals, three keyboards and three 'mouses', which can be simultaneously used as if they are three independent computers". Five new titles of educational CDs for Indian schools were produced earlier in 2005. They are: Friendly Animals and Journey on the Clouds (English)

Swatantra Divas
Fun with Chinchoo in Mathematics Khel-Mel (Hindi), released in February 2005. With these, the total number of master titles available is 70.

There are now 68 titles in Karnataka, 42 for Andhra Pradesh, 35 for Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, 18 for Urdu medium schools, six for Orissa, 14 for Gujarat, 3 for Punjab and 1 for Kerala. This Foundation is also involved in computer-based assessment in Andhra Pradesh (50,000 students took part in early 2005), a learning guarantee programme, and a policy planning unit in Karnataka

Azim Premji was named the Corporate Citizen of the Year for the Premji
Foundations tireless work in educating primary school children. Mr. Premji ranked as the worlds 6th richest IT Titan in the Forbes List. Azim Premji amongst the 100 most influential people in the world Time, April, 2004 Azim Premji voted the 15th most powerful man in the world Asia Week, Power 50, 2000 The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education have both conferred honorary doctorates on him. He is also a member of the Prime Ministers Committee for Trade and Industry in India.

Mr. Premji conferred with Padma Bhushan award Times Group, 2005.
Azim Premji named Business Leader of the Year Times Group, 2004. Businessman of the Year Business India, December 11 to 24, 2000.

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