Vivek Paul

Vivek Paul (born 1958) is an Indian-American businessman who has been a strategy consultant at Bain, senior executive at GE, CEO of a public company, Wipro, founder of a tech startup that was successfully sold to BMC, private equity investor at TPG and adjunct professor at Stanford. Ten of his direct reports went on to become public company CEO’s. He has served on multiple community and non-profit boards as well as public company boards. Early life, education and career Paul was born in India and received Bachelor of Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani and MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst. He did his schooling from St. Columba's in New Delhi. Paul began his business career at PepsiCo where his outstanding talents were quickly recognized. GE In 1990, Paul was part of the founding team of WiproGE Medical Systems, and became its CEO in 1994. The joint venture started as a sales and service arm, went on to manufacturing, and then design and build of medical equipment, becoming India's largest exporter of high value electronics goods. Paul was then asked to lead GE's worldwide CT scanner business. Paul reorganized operations across its China, Japan and US operations, and launched GE as the first major multi-detector CT provider. The work in complex product development became a foundation of "Design For Six Sigma".. In one of the books about Jack Welch, Paul was cited as among the top 5 All Star CEO's from GE. Wipro In 1999, Paul was asked to become Vice Chairman of Wipro and CEO of its outsourcing unit. Wipro was a $150-million company when Vivek Paul took over, and it had all the tendencies of a small, traditional company. Paul has been credited with creating a global business and for much of Wipro's growth into a multibillion-dollar company. On 19 October 2000, Wipro was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Paul was recognized as among the top 6 managers in the world by Jack Welch in one of his books, as well as by several business magazines.