Azim Premji 60 owns more than 80% of Bangalore-based Wipro India’s third largest software exporter which had annual revenues of $1.8 billion in 2005. Forbes magazine reckons that his net worth exceeds $13 billion and it places him at No. 25 in its most recent ranking of the world’s richest people. In the first of a two-part interview with Knowledge at Wharton Premji speaks with Ravi Aron a professor of operations and information management at Wharton about Wipro’s reorganization last year following the departure of its former CEO; why the company chose to move to a new structure based on so-called verticals; how Wipro’s business operations are changing; and the challenges the company faces in building management talent.