Azim Hashim Premji(born 24 July 1945)
Azim Premji was born on July 24, 1945 in Mumbai.
Thereafter Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.
In 1945, Muhammed Hashim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd,
Alexandre, Ambassador of France to India will confer the award to Premji.
Premji along with his family own about 73.25 per cent shares in the company.
Azim Premji was born in the year 1945 on 24th
July in the Mumbai city.
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has secured the 2nd position, with a wealth of $21 billion.
In 2006, Azim Premji was awarded Lakshya Business Visionary
by National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.
Premji started with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim Premji Foundation,
focused on education in India.
Premji started his foundation with a donation of $ 2.2 billion,
which focuses on education in the country.
As of April 2013, Premji has donated at least 25% of his personal wealth
to the said charity.
According to Asiweek, Premji is thought to be one of the 20
most intense men on the planet.
Premji donated 25 percent of his wealth and
announced 25 percent additional donations in the next five years.
Born on 24 July 1945, Azim Premji is one of the instantly recognizable faces
in the Indian business industry.
The only two South Asian Muslim billionaires named by Forbes magazine,
Yusuf Hamied and Azim Premji, are from India.
When India was partitioned, Muhammad Ali Jinnah-
the founding father of Pakistan- had invited Premji's father to stay over there.
Azim Hashim Premji(born 24 July 1945)
is an Indian business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist, who is the chairman of Wipro Limited.
His father Mohamed Hashem Premji was a famous businessman in his time
and was also referred to as the‘Rice King of Burma'.
She is from Mangalore and
joined us in 2016 after completing her M. A in Education from the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
In 1945, Muhammed Hashim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd,
based at Amalner, a small town in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.
Premji has objected to special payments to certain
shareholders including its two co-founders and two early backers, Bloomberg had said in an earlier report.
Premji owns 73% percent of Wipro
and also owns a private equity fund, Premji Invest, which manages his $2 billion worth of personal portfolio.
After partition, when Jinnah invited his father Muhammed Hashem Premji to come to Pakistan, he
turned down the request and chose to remain in India.
The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum has announced that Mastercard CEO and President Ajay Banga and
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji will receive the 2019 Global Excellence Awards.