Wipro Limited has tapped Angan Guha to lead its Americas 2 Strategic Market Unit as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 8, 2026. The appointment signals a strategic push to sharpen the company’s growth trajectory in North America, leveraging a leadership slate aimed at accelerating digital modernization and large-scale transformation initiatives for clients across key industries.
Guha brings more than 34 years of technology and business leadership to the role. Most recently, he served as Global CEO & Managing Director of Birlasoft Ltd., where he steered growth, financial performance, and a customer-centric culture built around digital capabilities. Before Birlasoft, he spent 28 years at Wipro in a sequence of progressively senior positions, including CEO of the Americas 2 Business Unit and a member of Wipro’s Executive Leadership Team. In his recent stint, he led a $2.9 billion business with more than 45,000 employees, spanning BFSI, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, and Canada Operations, and guided large-scale digital and AI transformation programs alongside the Technology and Operations Go-To-Market strategy.
The move underscores Wipro’s confidence in Guha’s track record of delivering growth through transformation programs and strategic client wins. With a career deeply rooted in both the business and technology sides of the fence, Guha’s appointment is expected to reinforce Wipro’s ability to pursue complex multiyear deals and broaden its footprint in the Americas while integrating cross-functional capabilities across its market units.
Off the balance sheet, Guha is recognized for a results-driven leadership style and a commitment to societal impact. He holds an Electronics Engineering degree from the University of Pune and has completed management programs at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, equipping him with a blend of technical grounding and strategic management insight as he takes the helm for Americas 2.