Alexis Samuel — Global Managing Partner - WCS at Wipro Limited

Mr. Alexis Samuel serves as Global Managing Partner - WCS at Wipro Ltd. Mr. Samuel served as the Chief Process Officer at Wipro Ltd. and served as its Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Samuel served as the Head of Central Engineering and Delivery Excellence, leading activities related to Wipro's global IT business with a charter to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance customer experience. As head of Central Engineering he was instrumental in developing engineering tools to improve productivity, deploying Lean across Wipro technologies, pioneering distributed Agile, Measuring customer satisfaction & modeling actionable insights, Large program intervention and leading the Knowledge management initiative. He has over 22 years of work experience across different industry segments 13 of which have been with Wipro. He has held senior management positions as delivery excellence head for Wipro Technologies, six sigma and business transformation head for Wipro's Consumer goods division, and P&L head of a multi product Wipro factory. He also has participatory research interests with faculty in Harvard and Wharton Business Schools in the area of Team constructs, Lean in IT, Program management and nudge factors in employee behavior in the context of IT services delivered by Wipro Technologies. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, in 1989. He is a Six sigma Master Black belt and is a Graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School.