Azim Premji
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| Azim Premji | |
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| Born | July 24 1946 Image:Flag of India.svg Bombay, India |
| Residence | Image:Flag of India.svg Bangalore, India |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Net worth | Image:Green Arrow Up.svg $18.5 billion USD[1] |
| Spouse | Yasmeen Premji |
Azim Premji (Gujarati:અઝીમ પ્રેમજી) (born July 24, 1945) is an Indian businessman and the Chairman & CEO of Wipro, which today is one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquarters in the Indian Silicon City Bangalore. He was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes[2]. His wealth today is estimated at 74,000 crores INR [[3]] which places him as the third richest Indian; ahead of DLF Chairman Kushal Pal Singh.
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[edit] Early Life
He did his schooling at the St. Mary's School I.C.S.E. at Mazagaon, Mumbai. Premji was just finishing his undergraduate engineering studies at Stanford University in 1966 when his father passed away.He had to come back to India to handle the family's fledgling vegetable oil business. Premji started off with a simple vision: to build an organization on a foundation of values. Premji eventually sought — and received — permission to study arts courses by correspondence to complete the requirements for his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering..
[edit] Awards and Accolades
In 2000, he was conferred an honorary doctorate by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. He was also adjudged the Business Man of the Year 2000 by Business India and is featured in the Business Weeks all-time top 30 entrepreneurs of the world in 2007. He is a member of the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee for Information Technology in India.[4]
As of 6th October 2007, he is the 5th richest Indian, with a net worth of $13.6 billion. [5]
[edit] Family & Personal Life
Premji is married to Yasmeen Premji and have 2 sons - Rishad Premji & Tariq Premji. Rishad Premji is married to Aditi Premji.
Azim premji is respected for his simplicity and frugal spending inspite of being one of the richest. While flying he travels in economy class and drives toyota corolla. He prefer to stay in company guest house rather than star hotels. He even served food in paper plates in a lunch honouring his son's wedding. [1]
[edit] Azim Premji Foundation
The Azim Premji Foundation says it "Aims at making a tangible impact on identified social issues by working in active partnership with the Government and other related sections of the society". The Foundation was set up with financial resources contributed by Azim Premji. Programmes of the Azim Premji Foundation focus on "creating effective and scalable models that significantly improve the quality of learning in the school and ensure satisfactory ownership by the community in the management of the school". Azim Premji Foundation says it "dedicates itself to the cause of Universalization of Elementary Education in India". The organisation has over the years been instrumental in improving the quality of general education, specially in rural schools.
Citing a technology initiative, the Foundation reported: "Think of a single PC with three display terminals, three keyboards and three 'mouses', which can be simultaneously used as if they are three independent computers". This innovative idea from the Azim Premji Foundation is being deployed in the computer aided learning centre at the Byatarayanapura Higher Primary School in Bangalore South District and in another school.
Five new titles of educational CDs for Indian schools have also been produced earlier in 2005. They are: Friendly Animals and Journey on the Clouds (English), Swatantra Divas, Fun with Chinchoo in Mathematics and Khel-Mel (Hindi), released in February 2005. This makes the total number of master titles available at 70.
There are now 68 titles in Karnataka, 42 for Andhra Pradesh, 35 for Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, 18 for Urdu medium schools, six for Orissa, 14 for Gujarat, 3 for Punjab and 1 for Kerala.
This Foundation is also involved in computer-based assessment in Andhra Pradesh (50,000 students took part in early 2005), a learning guarantee programme, and a policy planning unit in Karnataka.
Whole Company is his family
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Wipro Technologies Official Site
- Azim Premji's profile at Wipro's official site
- Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
- Profile on virtualbangalore.com
- "Defining moments:Azim Premji" - BBC News dated July 2003
- Azim Premji Foundation
- The Observer: The Story of Bangalore Billde:Azim Premji
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