Top 10 Wealthiest Indian Entrepreneurs in 2012
3. Azim Premji
$12.2 billion
Source: Information technology
Age: 67. Married, 2 children
Residence: Bangalore
Shares of Premji’s Wipro remained virtually flat in what is seen as a difficult market for outsourcing firms as they jumble for new contracts. An auction of Wipro’s stock owned by his trust in March showed a moderate response, resulting in only half of the shares offered being sold. He was among a group of tycoons to accompany Rahul Gandhi to Kashmir in October to evaluate investment prospects there. One of Asia’s most generous persons, Premji, who gave $2 billion in 2010 to his foundation to build a university among much else, co-hosted a philanthropy meeting in Bangalore with Bill Gates and Ratan Tata in June.
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His wife Yasmeen published her first novel in July, Days of Gold and Sepia.