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Indian IT giant Wipro appoints its new chief of sales and operations

October 4th, 2010

Bangalore, India based Wipro Technologies provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro, which has a growing presence across the North America, announced a change in the top layer of the management to take control of the sales and operations in the region. The company appointed Sid Nair as its new Chief Sales and Operations Officer for USA and Canada. The company said in a recent press release that Mr. Nair is going to lead Wipro’s Eco Energy business in the Americas along with driving special initiatives in IT Services. Mr. Nair, who has been with Wipro for over 15 years, is replacing Manoj Punja.

Wipro said that in his new role Sid will focus on driving value to customers’ business and growing Wipro’s market presence across all business units for the region. “With our customers’ agenda in the forefront, he will lead the field force team to deliver on our commitments and stated goals by leveraging Wipro’s strength in innovation, technology, process insight and globalization to further enhance the company’s position as a business transformation catalyst,” Wipro officials noted.

It will be worthwhile to mention here that Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application management, and datacenter managed services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro holds a leadership market as a provider of IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.

Sid holds an MBA degree from T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal, near Bangalore, and is based in Dallas, TS. In the span of his career in Wipro, Sid Nair has held various leadership positions across different business units. “I am very excited to take up this important leadership position within Wipro and hope to deepen the value we bring to our customers and grow our business in Wipro’s largest market.” Martha H. Bejar, president of Global Sales and Operations at Wipro Technologies said, “USA and Canada together make up our biggest market. Appointing Sid to lead this market was the natural choice and we are confident that under his steadfast leadership, Wipro will advance its customers’ agenda and further its business in this region,” Sid said, commenting on his new role.

Source:http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/106406-indian-it-giant-wipro-appoints-its-new-chief.htm

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CSC cycles out aussie chief wilkinson

March 31st, 2010

US IT outsourcing giant CSC has replaced incumbent Australian chief Nick Wilkinson with Gavin Larkins, a former local executive with the group who is returning from Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.

US IT outsourcing giant CSC has replaced incumbent Australian chief Nick Wilkinson with Gavin Larkins (pictured), a former local executive with the group who is returning from Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.

International executive Wilkinson has led the company in Australia since December 2007, relocating down under to do so. He was previously the company’s vice president of its Chemicals, Energy & Natural Resources division.

Wilkinson’s next role has not yet been announced, but in a statement, CSC’s global CEO Michael W. Laphen praised the executive, saying he had been instrumental in fostering growth in Australia, with a “stronger focus on marketplace recognition and improved sales and marketing capabilities in CSC Australia’s target verticals”.

Larkings has recently completed the Harvard program. Previously, he was assigned as vice president of service delivery with CSC’s Managed Services Sector for Europe, the Middle East and Africa regions. He was previous vice president of service delivery in Australia, and has held several senior positions since he joined the company in 1999.

“Larkings’ career in information technology (IT) spans over 30 years and includes management roles within the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and EDS. His experience in IT has been broad and diverse, ranging across line and executive management roles in data centres, technical systems support, applications development and account management,” CSC added in its statement.

The executive has a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from the University of Technology Sydney and a Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Management from Macquarie University Sydney, in addition to his new Harvard qualification.

It hasn’t been all plain sailing for Wilkinson during his stay in Australia.

In April last year, CSC confirmed it would make a number of its Australian staff redundant as a result of the global financial crisis — shortly after Wilkinson had emailed journalists personally referring to the year ahead as “a banner year”.

However the company also won a number of large IT outsourcing clients in the period — generally renewals such as last week’s deal with BlueScope Steel.

Larkings will take over CSC’s Australian operation on April 6.

Source:http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38010-csc-cycles-out-aussie-chief-wilkinson

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