JT CEO SURESH VASWANI
JT CEO SURESH VASWANI
Suresh Vaswani (born 2nd Jan 1960) is the Joint CEO of Wipro’s IT Business and is a Member of the Board of Wipro Limited. He jointly carries the overall responsibility for the strategy and operations of Wipro’s IT Business.
Suresh joined Wipro in 1985 from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and has held a broad range of leadership positions in critical portfolios across the Wipro Ltd. Prior to this role Suresh was President - Global IT Service Lines, Wipro Technologies and President - Wipro Infotech.
Suresh has been with Wipro for 23 years in various leadership roles and has been responsible for Wipro’s leadership position in differentiated global practices and emerging markets.
International Forums
- Fortune 500 Forum
It is clear that American corporations are already dealing with a climate of change. As business adjusts to new leadership in Washington and an uncertain economic environment, the forum holds in-depth discussions on the future of business.
Suresh Vaswani spoke in the Emerging Market Competitors - Competitiveness Roundtable Session along with Lawrence Goodman, Managing Director, Head - Emerging Market Strategy, Bank of America Corp. The session was moderated by Steve Koepp, Executive Editor, FORTUNE
- London International Business Advisory Council (IBAC)
The London IBAC creation is based on the concept that great cities and great companies need each other, that companies need good people and the best people are happiest in the best places - like London. The role of the Council will be to advise the Mayor on developing opportunities, initiatives and ideas that make London an even more appealing place for companies and their people to live and work in.
- World Economic Forum - Global Agenda Council
This Council aims to convene 15 to 30 of the most innovative and relevant minds to capture the very best knowledge and integrate it into global collaboration and decision-making processes. Members of the Network of Global Agenda Councils, will serve the global community within an interdisciplinary and multistakeholder body of leaders that monitor and prioritizes key global challenges, elaborates possible solutions and is available in crisis management situations.
- World Economic Forum - India Economic Summit
Suresh Vaswani attended the India Economic Summit being held in New Delhi from 16 - 18 Nov 2008. The summit is aimed at generating insight and to improve the alignment of India’s development and industry priorities. The summit is organized on four thematic pillars: Global Shifts; Managing Risks; Inclusive Growth; and Future Competitiveness.
External Forums
- NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009
The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009 brought under one roof industry leaders, thought gurus, analysts, Government decision makers, academia and IT users from across the world as the Indian IT-BPO industry entered its next phase of growth in an environment fraught with challenges and turbulence. The sector has expanded in size and stature and significantly enhanced its value proposition to global customers, it needs to focus on how it can sustain its edge and differentiators in the years ahead.
Suresh Vaswani spoke on Looking Inward - Business Imperatives "On C level: Making the most of a Crisis"
Session Overview: Economists are predicting that we face the worst ever recession, the extent of which has probably not been seen since the great recession in the US during the 1930s. The market challenge has the potential to create defining moments for companies – some for better, some for worse. But now more than ever will companies be defined by their leaders.
What are the key challenges that will be faced by CEOs in the information technology business today? CEOs of some of our most well known companies and leading thinking minds come together to debate what these could be and what strategies can be evolved to address them.
- NDTV Vision2020
The Vision2020 conference highlighted the transition taking place in the Indian Banking Sector. The conference explored the challenges and role ahead for the regulator, banks and technology solutions that would help define the future of Indian banking.
Suresh Vaswani opened the first session of the conference.
- NASSCOM Indo-German Forum - City of Cologne
This is a high level event hosted by NASSCOM in collaboration with the Business Delegation from the City of Cologne. The objective of this event is to promote the common endeavour to enable sustainable economic development between the Germany and India. The German delegation will be led by the Lord Mayor of Cologne, Mr. Fritz Schramma and the evening will be jointly hosted by NASSCOM and the City of Cologne.
Suresh Vaswani is the Honorable Chief Guest for the event. The event hopes to further India entrepreneurs business plans for Germany and Europe
Awards & Accolades
- Suresh Vaswani was rated among the top 25 Young Business Executives in India by Business Today, a leading business magazine in India.
From WIPRO Official Site...
Suresh Vaswani is the Jt. Chief Executive Officer of Wipro’s IT Business and is a Member of the Board of Wipro Limited. He jointly carries the overall responsibility for the strategy and operations of Wipro’s IT Business.
Suresh has been with Wipro for 23 years in various leadership positions and has been responsible for Wipro’s leadership position in differentiated global practices and emerging markets.
Suresh was rated among the top 25 Young Business Executives in India by Business Today, a leading business magazine in India. Suresh holds an engineering degree from IIT-Kharagpur and a management degree from IIM- Ahmedabad.
Suresh and his wife have two sons.
JT CEO GIRISH S. PARANJPE
JT CEO GIRISH S. PARANJPE
Girish S. Paranjpe has been Co-Chief Executive Officer of IT Business at Wipro Ltd., since April 18, 2008. Mr. Paranjpe has been President of Banking, Finance & Insurance Vertical at Wipro Technologies Ltd., a subsidiary of Wipro Ltd., since October 2000. Mr. Paranjpe has served with Wipro Technologies, Ltd. in other positions since July 1990. He has been with Wipro for more than 13 years and has headed the finance function in virtually all of Wipro's businesses. In
Girish S Paranjpe is the new Jt. Chief Executive Officer of Wipro’s IT Business alongside Suresh Vaswani and is an Executive Director in the Board of Wipro Limited. He jointly carries the overall responsibility for the strategy and operations of Wipro’s IT Business. He takes over this new role effective April 2008 and will report into the Chairman of the Company Mr. Azim Premji.
Girish’s direct responsibilities include the following Business Units – Finance Solutions, Communication, Media and Technology vertical and e-enabling service line. Girish is also directly responsible for driving Consulting and the functions under him are Global Delivery, CTO and CIO office & Operations.
Girish joined Wipro in 1990 and has held a broad range of leadership positions in critical portfolios across the Wipro Corporation during his tenure in Wipro for the last 17+ years.
In his last role from year 2000–March 2008, he was the President of Wipro Technologies Financial Solutions division and a member of Wipro’s Corporate Executive Council. Financial Solutions division provides IT and business process services and solutions to global customers in Banking, Insurance, and Securities and in diversified Financial Services. Under Girish’s leadership, Finance Solutions has grown at 45% per annum on a compounded basis over the past five years, established valuable customer relationships and significantly deepened domain expertise within Finance Solutions. During Girish’s tenure, the share of Wipro’s revenue from Financial Services clients more than doubled going up from 12% to 25%.
Girish also had additional responsibility and was overseeing marketing for the technology business and was heading strategic council.
He became the head for the consulting practice from the year 2007 and this still continues to be part of his direct responsibility.
Girish has represented Wipro and the IT Industry in various public forums including the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Information Technology and at the Nasscom
