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Premji figures in "Greatest Entrepreneurs"

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited has announced that company chairman  Azim Premji has been recently named by BusinessWeek as one of the “Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time”.

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Premji has been recognized for his vision and leadership that has been responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing companies. He is the only India to make it to the list.

The list that honors the ideas and innovation of the world’s 30 most influential men and women and includes 15th century explorer Admiral Zheng H to present day leaders like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell to name a few.

Azim Premji was highlighted for his success in turning a $3 million vegetable oil company to a global leader in IT services based on a foundation of values and consistently delivering premium quality to customers.

Azim Premji has been the chairman of Wipro Ltd from 1966 when he took over the company after his return from Stanford. Premji founded the Azim Premji foundation in the year 2001, with an aim to make tangible impact on identified social issues through education. The Foundation is presently working with 15 state governments and is engaged with 20,000 government run schools reaching about 2.5 million children.

The BusinessWeek ‘Top 30 All Time Entrepreneurs’ list is compiled based on opinions from professors, authors and other BusinessWeek staffers. The criteria looked at people who had the vision to create new markets or tap into underserved markets, changing the way people lived in the process. Some businessmen won recognition not just for their business acumen but also for the distribution of the wealth they created.