Dallas Venture Capital plans to invest about $130 million in enterprise focused B2B SaaS startups over the next five years through its India and US funds across India and the US
Abidali Neemuchwala will relinquish his position as CEO and MD on June 1.
Through his 27+ years of service, Neemuchwala’s career includes serving key leadership roles in business, technology, sales, operations and consulting.
Speaking at a session here at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, he said businesses must also improve their ability to assimilate cultures.
CNBC-TV18 is the only TV channel to get access to the newly set-up centre of Wipro in Silicon Valley and Shereen Bhan caught up with CEO Abidali Neemuchwala at this new facility and asked him about the company's plans for alliances and investment strategies in the Silicon Valley.
Data is going to be the currency of the future and the company has invested heavily in it, Wipro CEO Abidali Neemuchwala has said.
In order to stay competitive IT companies are already retiring high-cost employees and replacing them with younger ones.
There are many risks to the IT sector and the company needs to respond primarily to the changing customer needs to stay at the top. He feels the Indian IT industry is quite resilient to shocks and Wipro may emerge successful.
Wipro's new CEO Abidali Neemuchwala believes in the resilience of the Indian IT industry and said that it is just going through a change and sees Wipro well positioned to accomodate these changes.
Indian IT companies need to pivot to the cloud technology to stay ahead of the curve -- that's the advice to the likes of Wipro and Infosys from Adobe's Shantanu Narayen.
According to a regulatory filing, Neemuchwala received USD 859,079 in salary and allowances, USD 351,213 in commission/variable pay, USD 575,122 as other payouts and USD 21,216 as 'long-term compensation' during the financial year ended March 31.
In an e-mail to employees, Abidali Neemuchwala, who took over as Wipro's chief executive officer on Monday said the company must begin to think like a start-up and also create a workplace that is a 'melting pot' of diverse ideas.
Effective April 1, the move will see current chief Krishnakumar Natarajan moving on to the role of Executive Chairman with co-founder Subroto Bagchi stepping down from the position. Bagchi will continue on the Board as a non-executive director.
TK Kurien, Chief Executive Officer at Wipro pointed out that the company posted the best quarter in terms of new deals by bagging 6 new deals largely led by global infrastructure services. The new deal wins In Q3 reflect in the guidance for Q4, he added.
In a statement released, Wipro has said that Kurien will continue to be a member of the board until March 31, 2017 and will continue to report to Azim Premji.