Azim Premji
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Azim Hashim Premji, a founder, entrepreneur, engineer, and philanthropist, who is chairman of Wipro Limited, was born on July 24th, 1945.
Informally, he is regarded as the Czar of India's IT Industry.
He was responsible for steering Wipro through four decades of diversification and expansion, eventually emerging as one of the industry's top players.
According to Asiaweek, he was ranked as one of the world's top 10 most influential men in 2010.
He has twice been ranked among the top 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in 2004 and then in 2011. He is now the tenth richest person in India with an estimated net worth of US$7.2 billion as of October 2019.
By signing The Giving Pledge in 2013, he promised to give up at least half of his wealth.
Premji Foundation, which specializes in education in India, began with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim Premji Foundation, which focuses on education.
Early life and education
Premji was born in Bombay, India, in a Gujarati Muslim family. His father, Rice King of Burma, was a well-known businessman and was popular among Burma's rice kings. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Pakistani emperor, had invited his father Muhammed Hashim Premji to Pakistan, but he refused and opted to remain in India.
Premji holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is married to Yasmeen Premji. Rishad and Tariq are the couple's two children. Rishad Premji is the current Wipro Chief Strategy Officer.
Career
Muhammed Hashim Premji formed Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd, headquartered in Amalner, a small town in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district. It used to manufacture cooking oil under the brand name Sunflower Vanaspati, as well as a laundry soap called 787, a byproduct of oil manufacture. The then 21-year-old Azim Premji, who was studying engineering at Stanford University, returned home from Wipro in 1966 on the news of his father's death. At the time, Western Indian Vegetable Products was engaged in hydrogenated oil manufacturing, but Azim Premji later expanded the business to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient-based toiletries, baby toiletries, lighting, and hydraulic cylinders. The young entrepreneur, who was aware of the significance of the emerging IT field, used Wipro to expand the company name and entered the high-tech market in 1980s-technology cooperation with Sentinel Computer Corporation, an American company. Premji made a targeted switch from soaps to apps later in life.