Keshav R. Murugesh (born 17 August 1963) is the Group

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WNS Global Services WNS (Holdings) Limited () is a global business process management company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company has its expansion with 60 delivery centers worldwide. History WNS was founded in 1996 by British Airways as Speedwing World ...

, a NYSE listed company in the

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(BPM) business. He has been the Chairman of

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2019-2020.

Early life and education

Murugesh holds a

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degree and is a Fellow of The

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is India's largest professional accounting body under the administrative control of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. It was established on 1 July 1949 as a statutory ...

Career

Murugesh started his career in 1989 with the

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department at

ITC Limited ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata. ITC has a diversified presence across industries such as FMCG, hotels, software, packaging, paperboards, specialty papers and agribusiness. The company has 13 businesses ...

, and progressed to become its

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, Finance. Murugesh joined Syntel Inc. as CFO in 2002, became its President and COO in 2004 and CEO in early 2009. In February 2010, Murugesh joined

as its CEO.

Awards

Murugesh received the CA Business Leader of 2013 Award in the corporate sector by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and is a recipient of the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award 2015 He is also a recipient of the

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award at Asia's Best CSR Practices Awards 2011 for outstanding contributions as an entrepreneur to society. Keshav has been recently recognized as CNBC Asia’s ‘India Disruptor of the Year’.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murugesh, Keshav R Living people Indian chairpersons of corporations Indian accountants 1963 births Andhra University alumni