Dell Names Wipro Exec to Lead Services Push

(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) has named Suresh Vaswani, who was earlier joint chief of the IT business at India’s Wipro Ltd , as the executive vice-president of Dell Services’ applications and business process outsourcing business.

Vaswani will also take over as the chairman of its India operations, the world’s No. 2 personal computer maker said in a statement issued late Tuesday, adding, he will report to Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services.

As executive vice-president at Dell Services applications and business process outsourcing unit, Vaswani’s focus will be on building next-generation service offerings and grow Dell’s process capabilities globally, Dell added.

Earlier, Vaswani, along with Girish Paranjpe, quit as co-chief executive of Wipro’s key IT outsourcing business, as India’s No. 3 software services firm dismantled its dual-CEO structure and named company veteran T.K. Kurien as CEO. [ID:nL3E7CL0NE] (Reporting by Bharghavi Nagaraju; editing by Malini Menon)