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Azim Premji, 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.

About Azim Premji. 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...

Azim Premji is a billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and former chairman of Wipro, one of India's largest IT and consulting companies. Premji was the chairman of Wipro, founded by his...

Azim H. Premji. X. X. 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.

One of Asia's top philanthropists, also known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry, Azim Premji, the founder of tech major Wipro, is celebrating his 77th birthday today. Born on July 24, 1945, Premji is known for his generosity. The billionaire has donated a huge portion of his life’s earnings in charity.

Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman, investor, engineer, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Wipro Limited. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He is a key figure in the software industry. In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.

Medal Citation: 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Doing “real and permanent good” is a defining pillar of Andrew Carnegie’s vision of philanthropy. The life of Azim Premji embodies that vision. Mr. Premji came of age at the dawn of India’s independence, a period that he has described as one of hope, idealism, and sacrifice for the ...

Premji’s talk was part of the School’s “View From The Top” speaker series. Premji, who over the course of a 40-year career helped transform Wipro from a family-owned vegetable oil business (Western India Vegetable Products Ltd.) into one of the largest outsourcing companies in the world, said failure is a critical ingredient in innovation.