Saurabh Govil — President & Chief Human Resources Officer at Wipro Limited

Mr. Saurabh Govil has been Chief Human Resources Officer at Wipro Ltd since February 6, 2016 and has been its President since April 9, 2016. Mr. Govil serves as a Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Wipro Technologies Limited. Mr. Govil served as Global Head of Human Resources and Senior Vice President at Wipro Ltd until February 6, 2016 and served as its Senior Vice President of Human Resources. He is responsible for Talent Acquisition, Talent Engagement and Learning & Development initiatives across Wipro Ltd. In this capacity he has contributed significantly to improve processes and introduced many new initiatives. He was instrumental in Wipro's transformational journey and shaped people, processes and organization structure in the past 3 years to help Wipro prepare for the next spurt of growth. He joined Wipro in May, 2009 and has been a HR practitioner for over two decades, having worked in organizations such as ITC and GE. He started his career at ITC Ltd and spent 12 years there covering a variety of roles. He went on to become the HR Head for the Tobacco Division, with responsibility for all its Manufacturing facilities. In 2001, he left ITC to join GE and spent almost 8 years in various roles with them. He is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur where he completed his masters in Human Resources. He is on the advisory board of SHRM India. Saurabh has been a regular speaker at NASSCOM's HR summit. He also contributes to NHRDN's journal as an author.