A Brief Biography of Azim premji

2. AZIM HASHIM PREMJI

3. AZIM HASHIM PREMJI
1. Born on 24 July 1945
2. An Indian business tycoon , investor,
engineer , and philanthropist.
3. Chairman of Wipro Limited.
4. Known as CZAR of Indian IT industry.
5. Responsible for guiding Wipro through
four decades.
6. Emerged as one of the global readers in
software industry.
7. Currently the second richest person in
India.
8. NET worth US$21.5 billion (as of May
2019).
9. Is married to Yasmeen and together they
have two children , Rishad and tariq.

4. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
Premji has a bachelor of science in Electrical
Engineering degree from Stanford University,USA.
The western Indian vegetable products Ltd, Later
become wipro Ltd.
Earlier Wipro dealt in hydrogenated oil
manufacturing
but Premji diversified it to bakery fats, ethnic
ingredient based toiletries,hair care soaps, baby
toiletries, lightning products and hydraulic cylinders.
Recognizing the importance of the emerging IT
field, Premji made a focused shift from soaps to
software.

5. In the 1980s Wipro entered the IT field .
After the explusion of IBM from
India,Wipro started manufacturing
minicomputer under technological
collaboration with an American company
sentinel computer corporation.
The $1.5 million company in hydrogenated
cooking fats grew within to an over $6 billion
company.
Became the worlds’s first to win PCMM
Level 5(People Capability Maturity Model )
certification, the latest in quality standards.

6. RECOGNITION
•One of the Greatest Entrepreneurs by
Business week.
•An honorary doctorate by the Manipal
Academy of Higher Education in 2000.
•Lakshya Business visionary by National
Institute of Industrial Engineering
,Mumbai 2006 .
•An honorary doctorate from Wesleyan
University in Middletown,Connecticut in
2009.
• An honorary doctorate by Mysore
university in 2015.
•Padma Bhushan by Government of India
in 2005.
•Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
•In April 2017, India Today magazine
ranked him 9th in India’s 50 most powerful
people of 2017 list.

7. PHILANTHOROPY
In 2001, Premji founded Azim Premji Foundation with a Vision to achieve
quality education.
In 2010, he pledged to donate US$2 billion for improving school education in
India.
In 2019, Prremji pledged an additional 34% of Wipro stock held by him to the
foundation.
Transferred 213 million equality shares of Wipro Ltd-largest donation of its
kind in India.

8. AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY
The Azim Premji University was
established in2010 under an act of
Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Its main motto is to “Work
towards a just equitable ,humane
and sustainable society”.
The University offers
Undergraduate and Post-graduate
courses in education and in
development.
Research and projects to obtain
an honours degree.

9. THE GIVING PLEDGE
Premji has said that being rich “did not thrill” him.
Became the first Indian to sign up for the Giving
Pledge, a campaign led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates,
to encourage the wealthiest people to make a
commitment to give most of their wealth to
philanthropic causes.
According to Premji, “I strongly believe that those of
us ,who are privileged to wealth, should contribute
significantly to try and create a better world for the
million who are far less privileged”,

12. PREMJI’S LIFE LESSONS

15. STICK TO YOUR VALUES!

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