Suresh Vaswani

Early life

Vaswani has an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and a degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Career

Vaswani serves as president of Services, the global IT services and business solutions unit of Dell. In his role as President of Dell Services, he has direct responsibility for two lines of business: Infrastructure & Cloud Computing, and Applications & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). His previous responsibilities – Global Support and Deployment and Security Services, have moved to Jeff Clarke and Mike Cote respectively, into the End User Computing business, and as a standalone unit. In this role, he is responsible for developing and delivering end-to-end IT services and business solutions for various customer segments including global corporations, state and local governments and the midmarket. He is also responsible for the internal infrastructure, application and service delivery supporting information systems for Dell worldwide.

Previously, Vaswani led the global Applications & BPO services business for Dell Services. He also served as chairman for Dell India. In this role, Vaswani was instrumental in driving the growth and transformation of this business. He was responsible for building solutions for the future, based on next-generation technologies including mobility, social media, cloud, and application modernisation, delivered through next-generation service models.

As chairman of Dell India, Vaswani provided strategic leadership to not only grow and expand Dell’s presence and position in the market, but also to enhance Dell’s competence in India across IT services, delivery, manufacturing, and operations to support Dell’s global business.

Vaswani has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the global IT services industry. Prior to joining Dell, Vaswani was joint-CEO of Wipro’s IT business and a member of the Board of Wipro Limited.

In his past role as Joint CEO of Wipro's IT Business, Vaswani was directly responsible for business units addressing customers across Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Products, Government & Transportation, Healthcare and energy and utilities sectors. He was also responsible for BPO, Technology Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications and testing service lines. Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East business of Wipro and Infocrossing, the US-based data center business unit also come under his direct responsibility. From a functional perspective, he took care of Global Sales, Strategic Marketing and Quality.

Before becoming the Joint CEO, Vaswani was President of Global IT Services for Wipro Technologies in addition to being President of Wipro Infotech. Vaswani worked for over 25 years for Wipro in various leadership positions across IT services and has provided a strong platform for growth and leadership in emerging markets for Wipro.

He was involved with the work around the themes of 'Green' and 'Diversity' and was the executive sponsor for the gender diversity council at Wipro.

Business forums

Vaswani represented Wipro at multiple Global CEO round tables and forums.

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Personal life

Vaswani is married to Sonia and they have two sons, Mesheer and Niven.