He established the Azim Premji University in Bangalore in 2010, which plans to expand its student body from a current 1,300 students to 5,000 students, according to the foundation.

Premji is best known as the man who transformed a small cooking fat company in Maharashtra into Wipro — one of India’s largest and most respected IT services firms. But beyond the billions, the ...

Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji celebrated his father Azim Premji's 80th birthday. Azim Premji has been a significant figure at Wipro.With a net worth of $35.9 billion, he has received numerous accolades ...

I T giant Wipro on Thursday reported a 9.8% rise in consolidated profit after tax, reaching Rs 3,336.5 crore for the June quarter. In the same period last year, the company had posted a profit after ...

Sometimes the company you start looks a lot different from the company you end up with; Azim Premji turned his cooking fat company into one of India's largest technology companies. With over ...

Azim Premji is chairman of the New York-listed Wipro , India’s third-largest software exporter. He began his career at Wipro in 1966, inheriting the company after his father’s death.

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Premji's foundation was started nine years ago and is funded solely by Premji. In a September 2006 article, India's Economic Times said Premji had given the foundation stock valued at Rs 450 crore ...

Azim Premji is one of outsourcing's pioneers. At 21, the Bangalore, India, resident took over the family cooking-oil business. He later diversified the company, Wipro , into computer manufacturing.

BANGALORE—Indian billionaire Azim Premji Friday donated shares worth 123 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) in Wipro Ltd. to a philanthropic trust he controls, shortly after joining Bill Gates and ...

Azim Premji, the billionaire chairman of Wipro (WIT), is handing shares in the tech company worth nearly 530 billion rupees ($7.5 billion) to his philanthropic foundation.

Days after tech tycoon Azim Premji officially announced he’d signed the Giving Pledge, the Indian billionaire made his biggest philanthropic donation ever: Premji, ranked as India ’s third ...