Rishad Premji has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Wipro
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The 33-year-old elder son of Azim Premji, will report to the joint CEOs, Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe
“The changes will be effective January 2011. However, Rishad will move into the strategy function from September 1, 2010,”
Mr Vaswani and Mr Paranjpe, along with CFO Suresh Senapaty, according to an email sent to Wipro employees.
Rishad Premji had a stint with a global consultancy firm in Europe before joining Wipro around three years ago
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The elder son of Mr Azim Premji, he is armed with an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.