Rishad Premji

Biography

Rishad Premji is the Chief Strategy Officer & Member of the Board, Wipro Limited. In his role he also leads the Investor Relations & Corporate Affairs functions for the company. Since joining Wipro in 2007, he has been instrumental in shaping Wipro’s strategy and aligning it with the future business landscape. He championed Wipro’s entry into the Origination and Loan Servicing space as an end to end provider of Mortgage solutions. This led to the acquisition of Gallagher Financial Systems (now called Wipro Gallagher Solutions). In the BFSI space, Rishad also spearheaded the integration of Citi Technology Services following Wipro’s acquisition of the Citibank captive in the application and infrastructure space. As Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs, he has helped significantly scale up the systems, processes, and interactions with both internal and external stakeholders. Recently, he conceptualized Wipro Ventures – a $100M fund to invest in start-ups developing technologies and solutions that will complement Wipro’s businesses through next generation solutions and products.

Research Interest

 science