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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. [4] He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.
Sep 3, 2021 · In 1945, M.H. Hasham Premji had registered a company, named Western India Vegetable Products Ltd (now abbreviated to Wipro), that manufactured vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, a town in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district.
The company was incorporated on 29 December 1945 in Amalner, India, by Mohamed Premji. In 1966, after Mohamed Premji's death, his son Azim Premji took over Wipro as its chairperson at the age of 21. Shift to IT
Rishad Premji is an Indian business executive and the son of the former Wipro chairman Azim Premji. He was formerly the Chief Strategy Officer at Wipro and took over as Chairman of Wipro in July 2019. He was the Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2018–19.
Jun 24, 2023 · M.H. Hasham Premji, a visionary leader, recognized the potential for growth and diversification beyond the vegetable oil business. However, fate had other plans when he passed away in 1966, leaving the company’s reins to his 21-year-old son, Azim Premji.
Azim Premji was born on July 24, 1945, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, into a Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslim family. His father Mohamed Hashem Premji was a prominent businessman who founded the Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd., a company dealing in vegetable products and refined oils.
Mar 6, 2000 · An engineering graduate from Stanford University, Premji plunged prematurely into business when his father M.H. Hasham Premji died of a heart attack in 1966. Small in size, the inheritance was heavy in value. "Integrity was the most important of my father's lessons."
Nov 14, 2017 · Chairman Azim Premji abandoned his studies and took over the business when his father, Mohamed Hasham Premji, died in 1966. His expansion into software brought the family riches. Today it is...
Explore the remarkable journey and transformative business insights of Azim H. Premji, the visionary leader behind Wipro's success in the global business landscape.
Aug 18, 2022 · Back in Bombay, on 11 August 1966, Hasham Premji, who was 51, died of a heart attack. His wife, Gulbanoo Premji, had to now call back her youngest son from college in the US to steer the...
