Kurien was to continue also as member of the board until March TOI contacted Wipro for confirmation of Kurien's exit, but there was no response till the time of going to print. What he plans to do next is not clear.
He has invested in a few startups in the artificial intelligence AI space and in mobile payments startup ToneTag. Kurien had sought for an early exit last year, but the board asked him to stay with the firm for his full-term. He previously told TOI he had covered seven million air miles in his five years as CEO and lived out of a suitcase days a year.
But despite the hard work and despite being the hard taskmaster that everybody in Wipro said he was, Kurien struggled to make the company grow. Honouring Exemplary Boards. Deep Dive Into Cryptocurrency. ET Markets Conclave — Cryptocurrency. Reshape Tomorrow Tomorrow is different. Let's reshape it today. Corning Gorilla Glass TougherTogether. ET India Inc. ET Engage. ET Secure IT. Wipro vice chairman TK Kurien to retire at end of January Kurien served as Wipro chief executive for five years before being replaced in that role by Abid Ali Neemuchwala early last year.
All News Videos Photos. Wipro appoints new leaders for business application services, infrastructure business Wipro has appointed new leaders for its business application services and its global infrastructure business as the Bangalore-based IT firm begins its reorganization. Wipro sets the stage for CEO succession amid organisational overhaul Former TCS top honcho Abid Ali Neemuchwala is being considered as a frontrunner to take over from Kurien early next year, according to sources.
Wipro sets up new London centre to focus on digital services Wipro Digital, the digital arm of Wipro, today said its has set up a new "London pod" to offer enhanced digital transformation services to its customers in the UK and other parts of Europe.
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Wipro sets up team 'Unicorn' for digital push The team, which is referred internally as "Unicorns", comprises of people working across multiple technologies and design. Let me share with you some data from a CIO opinion survey across our client base that Wipro consulting team ran earlier this year.
Cloud computing offers an opportunity to look at holistic picture of the business process and makes it imperative for IT to have business-natured discussions like.
Wipro also understands that a true cloud, for example, changes the behavior of the organization by recapturing shadow IT, eliminating over-engineering, and removing the IT shop as a roadblock to business value realization. We have an integrated Cloud Services group which cuts across all verticals and service lines. This has been done to ensure that discussions with clients around cloud computing are elevated to more business-led discussions. We are helping many of our clients through cloud advisory, readiness analysis, and implementation and refactoring of applications.
Alongside, Wipro has also developed a portfolio of industry specific business process solutions to be delivered as cloud services from public cloud platforms and our own data centers. As an example of a business platform on cloud, we offer spend analytics on cloud BPaaS.
TK Kurien: Business leaders should be able to say the following about Wipro in future and many of our best customers already believe in this — Trusted partner and an industry thought leader who delivers winning business outcomes for me.
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