Thursday, 17 April 2014

Michigan State grads to hear India IT entrepreneur


Michigan State University says that Indian information technology pioneer Azim Premji will speak at the school's undergraduate commencement May 2.


Premji is chairman of Bangalore, India-based Wipro Ltd. He began leading the company in the late 1960s, taking it from a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into an IT and research and development organization with $8 billion in annual revenues.


The East Lansing school says Premji will address undergraduates at 1 p.m. at the Breslin Center and receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters


Michigan State says that ex-Lockheed-Martin Corp. chief executive Norman Augustine will address the graduation ceremony for advanced degree students later that day. He's speaking at 3:30 p.m. at Breslin and will get an honorary doctorate of science.


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Commencement details: http://bit.ly/P5MgSy


http://www.wipro.com


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