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Profile of Wipro chairman Azim Premji

He still drives a Toyota Corolla, flies economy class, and lives on campus at Wipro’s headquarters in Bangalore.

But Mr Premji is one of India’s most important hi-tech entrepreneurs.

He built his father’s vegetable oil company into a $25bn global outsourcing giant which is challenging the likes of IBM and Accenture, and transforming the way many multinationals do business

Born: 24 July 1945

Job: Wipro boss since 1968

Net worth: $11bn

Education: BA, electrical engineering, Stanford

Family: wife (Yasmeen), two sons (Rishad and Tariq)

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