KR Sanjiv
KR Sanjiv is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Wipro's Global IT Business. As a CTO he is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and strategy and also leading various aspects of the company’s future technology development. It includes incubation of the emerging technologies, creating an ecosystem for the innovations in these spaces, IP management and creating industry and academic alliances. Prior to this role, he was Global Head of Analytics & Information Management business unit. He carried P&L responsibility, strategy and operations of this unit globally reporting to the CEO. Sanjiv has over 25 years of enterprise IT experience, including consulting, application and technology development spanning multiple industry segments and diverse technology areas. Since joining Wipro in 1989, Sanjiv has been involved in defining enterprise architectures for organisations that included technical models, transformation program definitions and governance models. Sanjiv has spoken at leading CxO summits, industry and academic conferences on varied topics related to business technology. He holds a bachelor's degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
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