Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.

1. Business Ethics and
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Presentation on
Business Guru

2. Founder of Wipro
“Azim Premji”

3. About :-
Name:- Azim Premji
Born on :- 24th July 1947
Residence :- Bangalore, India
Occupation :- Chairman of Wipro
Education :- Stanford University
(BSE)
He is informally known as the
Founder of the Indian IT Industry.

4. Early life and
Education

5. • Premji was born in Bombay, India in a Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslim
family with origins from Kutch in Gujarat.
• His father was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of
Burma.
(After partition, when Jinnah invited his father Muhammed Hashem
Premji to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to
remain in India.)
• Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree
from Stanford University, USA.

6. Career

7. • In 1945, Muhammed Hashim Premji(father of Azim Premji) incorporated
“Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd”, located at a small town of
Maharashtra.
• It used to manufacture cooking oil under the brand name Sunflower
Vanaspati, and a laundry soap called 787, a byproduct of oil manufacture.

8. • In 1966, on the news of his father's death, 21-year-old Azim Premji returned
home from Stanford University, where he was studying engineering.
Stanford
University
India

9. • The company, which was called Western Indian Vegetable Products at the
time, Azim Premji later diversified the company to bakery fats, ethnic
ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products,
and hydraulic cylinders.

10. • In 1977, when Indian government asked International Business Machines
Corporation (IBM) to leave the country
• Premji took advantage of the vacuum left behind by the exit of IBM from
India.
• He changed the company name to Wipro and entered the high-technology
sector by manufacturing minicomputers under technological collaboration
with an American company Sentinel Computer Corporation.
Western Indian Vegetable Products ltd Western Indian product (Wipro)

11. • Later the company become very successful and also build its headquarter
in Bangalore.
• In 2013, Premji started with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim Premji
Foundation, focused on education in India.

12. Awards won by
Premji

13. • In 2006, Azim Premji was awarded Lakshya Business Visionary by
National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.
• In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan
University in Middletown.
• In 2005, the Government of India honored him with the title of Padma
Bhushan for his outstanding work in trade and commerce.
• In 2011, he has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest
civilian award by the Government of India.
And so more…

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