During Delaporte s four years at Wipro, four Wipro former executives went on to become CEOs outside the company, while three became CFOs even as other senior leaders joined smaller and larger firms in top CXO roles.
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‘Wipro is like a perpetual turnaround story’. Heard that line before? Well, the company has lagged peers. And having had eight CEOs since 2000 conveys a leadership continuity challenge. TCS, in its 55+ year history, has had fewer bosses. Pallia, therefore, has a difficult job.
India Business News: Non-Indian CEOs, like Thierry Delaporte and Brian Humphries, faced cultural misalignment in Indian IT firms. Delaporte de-complicated Wipro but left a
Pallia is one of the rare candidates to rise up the ranks to the top within Wipro, which has seen several CEO changes in the last 15 years. Some quick to-dos as he takes charge, experts said, are to boost the morale of the employees of the country’s fourth largest IT services and consultancy firm and reverse senior level attrition.