India's highest paid CEO, Thierry Delaporte, has a salary of...

Thierry Delaporte joined Wipro as CEO in 2020.

Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte has emerged as the highest-paid CEO in India after the company listed his salary package in filings for FY23. Delaporte beat top executives of rival IT companies HCL Technologies and TCS to earn a salary of more than Rs 82 crore this financial year.

Delaporte joined Wipro as CEO in 2020 and launched the $10 billion IT services and consulting company on a massive transformation journey.

Speaking to Forbes, he recollected meeting Wipro’s founder and chairman Azim Premji while considering the CEO's role because he said the relationship between the CEO and the chairman is "incredibly critical".

"Azim is an incredible human and entrepreneur, and, at the same time, a philanthropist," Thierry Delaporte told the publication. "Then I spent three or four hours with the current chairman--and Azim’s son--Rishad Premji.  When we met, I felt that we were speaking the same language and that we shared values and priorities. We certainly shared a common ambition. That completely changed my thinking about my future, and I took the CEO role."

Meanwhile, Infosys's Salil Parekh emerged as the country's second-highest-paid CEO, an analysis of the Bombay Stock Exchange 500 companies on the stock market by Economic Times showed. He drew a salary of Rs 56.45 crore this year and was followed by Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani in the third spot with a total compensation of Rs 30 crore. In fourth place is former TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan who earned over Rs 29 crore in FY23 -- a 13 percent increase from his earnings last year, Times Now reported.

Zerodha founders Nithin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath turned out to be the highest-paid CEO and director of a startup firm. The brothers each drew a salary of Rs 72 crore this year.

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