{"id":358806,"date":"2026-04-01T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358806\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:05:20","slug":"indias-wipro-names-ai-chief-head-of-americas-2-unit-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358806\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Wipro names AI chief, head of &#8216;Americas 2&#8217; unit quits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Indian IT services firm Wipro on \u200cWednesday named insider Nagendra \u200cBandaru as the CEO of its \u200bnewly created <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> segment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Here are some details:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">* Bandaru, a company veteran, will head \u200cthe unit \u2060that willdevelop agentic AI solutions and create new \u2060AI-led businessstreams. * The country&#8217;s fourth-largest software exporter alsoannounced the \u200bresignation of \u200bSuzanne \u200bDann, CEO of \u200cits &#8220;Americas2&#8221; unit. * The unit, accounting for a third of Wipro&#8217;s revenue,houses the Canada market and the banking and financial \u200cservicesand energy businesses \u200bin the U.S. * \u200bAccenture \u200bveteran Kanwar Singh has \u200cbeen brought in \u200bto fillBandaru&#8217;s \u200bcurrent role of president and managing partner oftechnology services \u200bbusiness \u200cline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Nishit Navin; \u200bEditing by Sonia Cheema \u200band Sahal Muhammed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Indian IT services firm Wipro on \u200cWednesday named insider Nagendra \u200cBandaru as the CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,189415,189413,111,139,69,189414,145,1721],"class_list":["post-358806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bandaru","tag-nagendra-bandaru","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-software-exporter","tag-technology","tag-wipro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}