Ram N Agarwal to be Executive Vice President, Wipro Corporation

BANGALORE, 25 August : Wipro has appointed

V. Rama Kumar as chief executive, e-commerce in Wipro Software and

Services. He will report to Wipro Ltd. Vice chairman Vivek Paul. Prior to

this, Mr. Kumar was Wipro Corporation Corporate Vice President Mission

Quality and Information Management.

Mr Kumar joined Wipro Infotech as a Software Engineer in

1982 after a BTech from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, and MBA

from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was Wipro Infotech

Solutions and Systems Integration Chief Executive before joining the

corporate office.

Wipro has also announced the appointment of Ram N.

Agarwal as corporate executive vice president, Wipro Corporation and a

member of Wipro's Corporate Executive Council. He will be responsible for

Quality, Information Management and corporation-wide initiatives on the

Wipro brand, sales and marketing and the Internet. In addition, he will

start a new corporation program for management of Innovation in 2000-2001

and chair Wipro Corporation Councils relating to Quality, Information

Management, Sales and Marketing and Innovation.

Mr Agarwal, a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an MBA from

IIM-Calcutta began his career in Wipro in 1977 as

Area Sales Manager at Amalner, Maharashtra, in Wipro's Consumer Care

business. He has been President of peripherals system division since April

1994 and President of MAIT.

Agarwal will take over from V Rama Kumar on December 1,

1999. Until then, Rama Kumar will concurrently shoulder his current

responsibilities at Wipro Corporate office as well as at Wipro software

and services group.