Company overview
- Sector
- Technology, Software & IT Services
- Sub-sector
- Information Technology & Services
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $9,900,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 146,586
- India headcount
- 3,000+
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Pune
- Chennai
- Hyderabad
- Kolkata
GCC notes
IT services, consulting, digital transformation and BPO services
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- ABAP
- ACL
- ADP Applicant Tracking System
- AFAS
- AI
- AMP
- ANGEL LMS
- API Gateway
- ASG Zeke
- ASP.NET
- AVEVA PDMS
Public leadership
Sanaulla Khan
Sr Vice President & Company Secretary
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Software Engineers; Data Engineers; Cloud Architects; AI/ML Engineers; Delivery Managers
Research overview
Wipro Limited traces to 1945, when Mohamed Hasham Premji founded Western India Vegetable Products Limited (cooking oils) in Amalner, Maharashtra. Under Azim Premji (chairman from 1966), diversified into IT hardware in the early 1980s and later software/IT services, growing into one of India's largest global IT, consulting and BPO majors, headquartered in Bengaluru, listed on BSE/NSE/NYSE. Global revenue ~$9.9B, ~146,586 employees across 146+ nationalities.
- India launch
- 1945
- Maturity
- Mature / Integrated Corporate Function
Wipro is not a captive GCC of a foreign parent but an India-headquartered global IT services major in its own right - Bengaluru and its other hubs function as full corporate and delivery headquarters. 80-year operating history with a fully integrated global delivery, consulting and corporate-function footprint.
Timeline
- 1945
Founded as Western India Vegetable Products Limited by Mohamed Hasham Premji in Amalner, Maharashtra.
- 1981
Entered the IT hardware business, developing one of India's first minicomputers built on the Intel 8086 chip.
- 2004
Wipro's annual revenues crossed $1 billion, cementing its position as a top-tier global IT services exporter from India.
Leadership context
Mohammed Sanaulla Khan is Senior Vice President and Company Secretary/Compliance Officer of Wipro Limited, based at Wipro's Bengaluru HQ. Joined around 2015 after prior roles as Company Secretary & SVP-Secretarial and Legal at ICICI Prudential and Head of Legal and Company Secretary at PSI Data Systems; Master of Commerce (Accounting & Finance, 1993, Andhra University). Career-history details sourced from a third-party corporate-directory profile, lower confidence beyond current title.
News and developments
Wipro reports near-flat Q1 profit of ₹3,325 crore on 10.6% revenue growth
Cautious guidance issued.
2026-07-16 Business Standard ↗
Wipro dropped from the Nifty 50 index
IT sector's declining index weighting.
2026-08-11 Business Standard ↗
Wipro deploys an AI agent across its ~240,000-strong workforce
Personalized skill-development/training recommendations via AI.
2026-08-26 Business Standard ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.