Azim Hashim Premji was born on 24 July 1945 and is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited.
19 Facts About Azim Premji
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Azim Premji is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.
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Azim Premji was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.
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Azim Premji has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by Time magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011.
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Azim Premji serves as the Chancellor of Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
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Azim Premji was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, by the Government of India.
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Azim Premji topped the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List for 2020.
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Azim Premji was born in Bombay, India in an Kutchi Indian Muslim Shia Islam family from Gujarat.
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Azim Premji's father was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of Burma.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, invited his father Muhammed Hashim Azim Premji to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to remain in India.
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Azim Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University.
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Rishad Azim Premji is currently the chief strategy officer of IT business, Wipro.
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In 1945, Muhammed Hashim Azim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd, based at Amalner, a small town in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.
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In 1966, on the news of his father's death, the then 21-year-old Azim Premji returned home from Stanford University, where he was studying engineering, to take charge of Wipro.
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Thereafter, Azim Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.
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Azim Premji has said that being rich "did not thrill" him.
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Azim Premji 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.
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Azim Premji is the third non-American after Richard Branson and David Sainsbury to join this club.
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Azim Premji topped the list of "India's most generous" released by Hurun India and EdelGive on 10 November 2020.