Azim Premji
Studied Engineering at Stanford University.
Value /Wealth created about $ 2-50 billion.

In 1966 Premji had to cut short his engineering studies at Stanford University due to his father’s death. He joined the family business of vegetable oils “vanaspati”, bakery fat, hair care soaps, lighting products, and hydraulic cylinders.

Since that time, Premji has taken astute business decisions such as making PCs when IBM was thrown out of India in 1975.

Premji is known for his simple living and high thinking, travels by economy class and stays in value-for-money hotels. He believes in his own company and currently owns 75 percent of the company's shares.

In 1984, Wipro pioneered the concept of sharing wealth through stock awards. Wipro launched the Stock Options in 1999. They have been the first in India in 1997 to start the Six Sigma Quality Program [a quality metric that uses the concept of leadership of teams by high quality professionals as Judo/ karate “Black Belts”] which has been followed with General electric