Who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Wipro Group?

Concept

A company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the single executive who holds the top operating title at a given point in time. For a previous-year current-affairs question, the office-holder being asked about is whoever held that title during the year the exam was conducted — the question is scored against that period's facts, not against who holds the post today.

Application

This item is a Previous Year Question from a 2017 exam. During 2017, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Wipro Limited was Abidali Z. Neemuchwala, who took charge of the role on 1 February 2016 (succeeding T. K. Kurien) and continued in it until June 2020 — a period that fully covers 2017. He is therefore the CEO the question is asking about.

Contrast

• Rishad Premji: part of Wipro's promoter family; he later became Executive Chairman (from July 2019), a board-level strategy role, but he has never held the Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director title this question asks about.

• Azim H. Premji: took charge of Wipro (founded by his father) in the late 1960s and was the company's Chairman through this period (he is now Chairman Emeritus); he led its transformation into a global IT firm, but never held the CEO/Managing Director title.

• Srinivas Pallia: took charge as Wipro's CEO and Managing Director only in April 2024 — seven years after this exam was conducted — so he could not have been the answer to a 2017 question.