APARNA IYER

Top IT services firms experience revenue growth in Europe, MEA, and APAC, outpacing North America. US clients are cautious about spending due to inflation. India and MEA witness investments in technology, driving demand for innovative solutions.

Despite gender diversity efforts in India, women are underrepresented in CFO roles. Challenges include bias, retention issues, and supply-side constraints. Companies struggle to retain high-potential women, impacting women's rise to top finance role...

"The percentage of women (in leadership) in organisations is fewer, but it is representative of the fact that the overall percentage of women in the workforce is low. It is crucial that companies have more women at the entry level and then they are ...

During Delaporte's four years at Wipro, four Wipro former executives went on to become CEOs outside the company, while three became CFOs even as other senior leaders joined smaller and larger firms in top CXO roles.

Wipro's market cap soared by Rs 1.36 lakh crore in 4 years under Thierry Delaporte, elevating shares by 116%. Srinivas Pallia succeeded him as CEO. Aparna Iyer was named CFO, maintaining internal leadership transition.

Pallia succeeds Thierry Delaporte, who is stepping down to "pursue passions outside the workplace", the company said in a statement.

Data from Deloitte Global Boardroom Program's Women in the Boardroom report, shared exclusively with ET, show that only 5.1% of the CEOs in the 400 listed companies on the MSCI index analysed are women - with the needle hardly moving from 3.4% in 20...

The situation is worse in the case of the Indian IT industry, with none of the 54 companies in the NSE-1000 index having a female CEO. Market leader TCS, which employs more than 200,000 women (constituting over a third of its workforce), has no wome...

Numbers have improved in 2024 so far, but data from 2,257 NSE cos show only 45 women in director-finance roles. Experts said a push is coming from board members to improve gender diversity (which is a key element in the ESG scores of companies) at t...

Wipro is cutting mid-level roles to improve margins. It bought Capco for $1.45 billion, Delaporte's biggest bet. Job cuts are part of the 'Left-Shift' strategy. Wipro underperforms and faces conflicting goals.

We are seeing green shoots again based on the performance in bookings of our consulting, in particular in Capco in quarter three visible improvement but possibly a slight positive sign that leads us to be more positive about the revenue trajectory.

The spillover of positive sentiments around Indian IT stocks, after decent third-quarter results by peers Infosys and TCS, is likely reflected in the sharp surge of ADRs of Wipro.

The IT major has guided for -1.5% to 1% sequential growth in its IT services business revenue. This translates to a revenue of $2.62-$2.67 billion in the March quarter in constant currency terms. Most analysts had expected Wipro to give -1% to +1% g...

Wipro Q3 Results: Wipro reported disappointing Q3 results, with a decline in net profit and revenue. The company's consolidated net profit decreased by nearly 12% YoY to Rs 2,694 crore, while the consolidated revenue dropped 4.4% to Rs 22,205 crore....

Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte discussed the company's Q2 performance and the challenges posed by a slowing market and reduced discretionary spending. He emphasized that there have been no client cancellations or one-off events, but rather a decrease i...

Aparna Iyer has served more than 20 years in the company. She will replace Dalal, effective September 22, Wipro said in a regulatory filing.

Konkona Sen Sharma is still popular for essaying the role of a Tamil Brahmin girl in Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Her mother, Aparna Sen, directed this English-language movie where Rahul Bose also played a crucial role. This film won her the National Award fo...

The film-maker said that the movie was nominated for the prestigious Kim Joseok Award.

At the end of Dec 2019, we had 10 million daily meeting participants. By the end of April, we announced that we had reached 300 million daily meeting participants... But I am not sure that anything about this pandemic is perfectly planned.. We used ...