Wipro sees the quiet rise of veteran execs

Veterans at Wipro Ltd are steadily rising to the top in Srinivas Pallia's eight months in the corner office, at a time when India's fourth largest technology services firm is working to recover from a full-year revenue decline.

- Jas Bardia

Chief marketing officer Laura Langdon resigned earlier this week and will be succeeded by Asia business CMO Ranjita Ghosh. This makes it Wipro's eighth top-level change since Pallia took over as chief executive on 6 April.

Langdon, who joined Wipro as CMO in March 2019, is expected to leave in February.

Ghosh, who completes two decades in Wipro next year, will work from Bengaluru.

Ghosh's elevation underscores the talent strategy of Pallia, himself a Wipro veteran with more than three decades at the Bengaluru-based company.

In six of the eight top-level changes, Wipro promoted internal candidates to leadership roles.

Four days after Pallia was named chief executive, Malay Joshi took over as CEO of Americas 1, Wipro's largest market unit that Pallia used to head earlier. In May, less than a month since Joshi's promotion, Hari Shetty, another company veteran, was named Wipro's chief strategist and sales excellence officer.