Indian IT services giant Wipro has announced that its Chief Operating Officer, Amit Choudhary, has stepped down with immediate effect to pursue opportunities outside the organisation. This news was disclosed in an exchange filing by the company. Choudhary, whose last day will be May 31, will be replaced by Sanjeev Jain effective immediately. Jain will be based in Bengaluru and will report to CEO and Managing Director Srinivas Pallia. He will also remain a member of Wipro’s executive committee.
This marks the second significant departure from Wipro in a short span, following the resignation of Anis Chenchah, President of the Asia Pacific, India, Middle East, and Africa (APMEA) region, on May 10. Both Choudhary and Chenchah joined Wipro under the leadership of former CEO Thierry Delaporte, who resigned on April 6. Notably, all three executives have previous experience at the France-headquartered Capgemini.
Jain, who joined Wipro in 2023 as the global head of business operations, brings over 30 years of experience in managing large, diverse teams and scaling global operations. He has been instrumental in leading Wipro’s talent supply chain, including the company’s gig work platform TopGear, and has overseen talent skilling, global mobility, talent acquisition, and business resilience functions.
Wipro highlighted Jain’s contributions to the development and deployment of its AI training and upskilling strategy. In his new role, he will oversee global business operations, the Chief Information Office, the Chief Information Security Office, and the enterprise risk management function.
Before his tenure at Wipro, Jain held leadership roles at Kyndryl Holdings (an IBM spin-off), IBM, Cognizant, and GE. He is an alumnus of IIM-Mumbai.
This leadership reshuffle comes at a challenging time for Wipro, which reported a 7.8 per cent year-on-year (YoY) decline in consolidated net profit for the March quarter (Q4). The company’s net profit fell to Rs 2,834.6 crore, down from Rs 3,074.5 crore in the same quarter last year. Revenue from operations also saw a decrease, dropping 4.2 per cent YoY to Rs 22,208.3 crore.