Wipro Infrastructure Engineering MD inaugurates XLRI CEO Forum

In his interactions with students, Mr Behar shared insights from his corporate career at Wipro and reflected on his learnings from XLRI education.

Anurag Behar is an alumnus of XLRI, having graduated from the Business Management Programme in 1992.

As Corporate Vice President, Anurag Behar leads Brand, Corporate Communications and Wipros Community Initiatives. He is amongst a handful of individuals reporting directly to Infotech czar Mr Azim Premji. Under his leadership, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Limiteds revenues have grown from $30mn to $200mn, and they have also acquired a Scandinavian company to become a global company.

Mr Behar spoke on Wipros journey so far, interspersed with anecdotes which were relatively unknown -- like Wipros first plan in 1971 to manufacture scooters which did not materialise! He also spoke about how Wipro today is the largest 3 rd party R&D service provider in the world.

Mr Behar also shared with the students his experiences -- from his XLRI days to his present corporate responsibilities. He said, XLRI is probably the only B-school which provides its students with a high degree of people sensitivity which is so critical for a leader to build an effective team. He was all praise for the skills he learnt at XLRI and how they have been helping him all along.