The company also produced five CEOs for its internal ranks, who experts say are standalone CEOs in the making. They quote the example of Srinivas Pallia who was CEO of Americas 1 and was elevated as the CEO and MD of Wipro on Sunday after Delaporte’s surprise resignation 15 months before the expiry of his term.
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The most notable IT leaders from Wipro stable who became CEOs outside the company include former iDEAS (Integrated Digital, Engineering & Application Services) Head, Rajan Kohli who became CEO of CitiusTech. Former CEO of Wipro’s Americas 2, Angan Guha was appointed chief of data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” target=”_blank” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/birlasoft-ltd/stocks/companyid-4471.cms” rel=”noopener”>BirlaSoft and former COO at Wipro Sanjeev Singh who went on to lead CMS IT Services. Turki Bin Nader, who was appointed by Delaporte as general manager and country head, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, quit Wipro to become CEO of Capgemini Saudi Arabia in January 2024.
Internally Thierry appointed many CEOs including for the four Strategic Market Units (SMUs) – Srini Pallia for America 1, Suzanne Dann for Americas 2, Pierre Bruno for Europe, and Anis Chenchah for APMEA (Asia Pacific Middle East Africa). Most recently, under Delaporte’s watch Anne-Marie Rowland was appointed as the CEO of Wipro’s biggest acquired company – Capco. Rowland was managing partner of Capco’s business in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Three top executives from Wipro stable also went to become CFOs outside the company. Jatin Dalal the former CFO at Wipro joined bigger rival Cognizant and took charge as its CFO last financial year. Similarly, Kamini Shah, CFO at Wipro’s Americas 1 quit the company to become CFO at Birlasoft last year. Nithin V Jaganmohan the former CFO Americas 2 also exited from Wipro to become the CFO of IT firm, Xoriant.
Outsourcing expert and CEO at EIIRTrend, Pareekh Jain, said, “Big change creates opportunities. And big companies like Wipro and others have many hidden talents in their bench waiting for opportunities. Thierry gave opportunities to many people internally and externally including Pallia in leadership roles and many leaders developed in his tenure moved out to become CEOs outside the company. The transformation journey under him produced many leaders not only as CEOs but also CXOs.”
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Gurvinder Sahni, Former VP at Wipro too quit the company to become the CMO (chief marketing officer) at Persistent Systems last April. The controversial former senior vice president Mohd Haque against whom Wipro filed a case of breach of non-compete clause last year, went on to become the chief commercial officer, Americas, of Cognizant.
