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Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman 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.
Indian tech magnate Azim Premji's $11.3 billion (revenue) Wipro is among India's largest software services providers. Premji gave up studies at Stanford in 1966 to look after the family's cooking ...
3 days ago · Join Azim Premji Foundation, a leading organization that works for quality and equity in education, and explore various opportunities to learn and contribute.
Azim Premji, a graduate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, has been at the helm of Wipro Limited since the late 1960s, turning what was then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into an IT, BPO, and R&D services organization generating over $10 billion in revenue, with a presence in 66 countries.
May 26, 2024 · After a period of absence from the public eye, Wipro founder Azim Premji made a noteworthy appearance at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Business Summit. At 78, Premji, who ...
Azim Premji (born July 24, 1945, Bombay [now Mumbai], India) is an Indian business entrepreneur who served as chairman of Wipro Limited, guiding the company through four decades of diversification and growth to emerge as a world leader in the software industry. By the early 21st century, Premji had become one of the world’s wealthiest people. In the year that Premji was born, his father founded Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd., which produced vanaspati, a widely used hydrogenated ...
Nov 22, 2018 · Premji has also repeatedly taken strong bets on people to run his company for him. For instance, under Vivek Paul’s leadership, the company grew nearly 10-fold to $1.4 billion in the six years ...
Born on July 24th, 1945, in Bombay, India, Azim Premji hails from a Kutchi Indian Muslim Shia Islam family with deep roots in Gujarat. His father, Muhammed Hashim Premji, earned acclaim as the “Rice King of Burma,” declining an invitation from Muhammed Ali Jinnah to move to Pakistan, thus reaffirming their commitment to India.
Azim Premji, 60, owns more than 80% of Bangalore-based Wipro, India's third largest software exporter, which had annual revenues of $1.8 billion in 2005. Forbes magazine reckons that his net worth ...
6 days ago · The majority of Premji's wealth is derived from his 62.5% stake in Wipro, an Indian information technology, consulting and outsourcing company, according to a July 2023 filing.
Jun 20, 2017 · Throughout his career Mr. Premji has remained deeply faithful to Mahatma Gandhi’s belief that the wealthy are trustees of their fortunes and, as such, are obligated to uplift their societies.
Wipro founder Azim Premji has, for a second straight year, emerged as the country's “most generous” philanthropist billionaire, as he topped the Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021 ...
"Okay, let's go," he said one minute and 20 seconds into the conversation. Azim Premji, multibillionaire and leading architect of India’s surging economy, wouldn’t let another second slip away on small talk.
May 17, 2024 · After a long hiatus, Azim Premji addressed the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Business Summit 2024 on Friday. The 78-year-old is the founder of Wipro Limited, served as chairman for nearly four decades, and remains a non-executive member of the board.
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History The Foundation was formally established on 9 March 2001 (under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act of 1956). Since then, Azim Premji has contributed a substantial portion of his wealth to create a philanthropic endowment, valued at approximately INR 2,40,000 crore (USD 29 billion) as of January 2023. This endowment serves as the […]
Dec 6, 2022 · Premji also gifted two-thirds of his Wipro stock, which is held in a separate trust for educational purposes. The Azim Premji Foundation, founded as a nonprofit organization in 2001, aims to ...
Some Lesser Known Facts About Azim Premji. Azim Premji was born in Bombay in a Shia Muslim family with roots from Kutch in Gujarat. His father, Mohamed Hashem Premji, was a well-renowned businessman and was titled “Rice King of Burma.”
2 days ago · Azim Premji Foundation signs MoU with Karnataka government to provide eggs to students on all days of the week in mid-day meal So far, eggs were given as part of the mid-day meal twice a week in ...
PremjiInvest, the largest Indian family office that manages over $10 billion for software tycoon Azim Premji, will invest more money into artificial intelligence companies while fine-tuning its ...
2 days ago · The Karnataka government and the Azim Premji Foundation on Saturday signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) agreeing to provide eggs four days a week, as a part of special nutrition food, for midday meals at all government schools.. Currently, the government is already providing eggs two days a week and with this initiative, government school students will get eggs six days a week.
Nov 11, 2020 · Azim Premji: Early life, Family and Education. Azim Hashim Premji was born on July 24, 1945, in Mumbai (then Bombay) to a Muslim family. His father Mohamed Hashim Premji was known as the Rice King ...
Azim Premji, the founder-chairman of IT major Wipro voiced his concern against the idea of promoting school students to the next class and stressed the need for adequate attention towards lost ...
Previously, the state’s midday meal program included eggs only two days a week. Under the new MoU, the Azim Premji Foundation will supply eggs four additional days each week, ensuring that every ...
1 day ago · Students in government schools across Karnataka are now set to get eggs six days a week as part of the state’s midday meal scheme, thanks to a new agreement signed between the Azim Premji ...
3 days ago · The Foundation entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Karnataka today to support the nutritional enrichment of the state government’s mid-day meal programme in government and government-aided schools for three years.
