Nashville Technology Council

Manoj Punja
Chief Sales and Operations Officer Americas
Wipro Technologies

Manoj Punja is the Chief Sales and Operations Officer of Wipro’s IT business in the Americas. Over 60% of Wipro’s IT business is generated from the Americas. In this role, he manages Wipro’s IT business across all business units in the US, Canada and LatAm. His responsibilities include sales, client satisfaction and operations including local development centers in the Americas.

Prior to this role, Manoj served as the Global Head of the business unit for Technology, Media, Transportation, and the Services industries. In this role he was responsible for business development, competency development, client satisfaction and service delivery. Under his leadership, the business unit saw phenomenal growth with revenues that increased 10-fold in six years and a heightened global presence in the years 2002-2008.

Manoj joined Wipro in 1991. He has since led various groups in Wipro including the software products division, strategic resourcing, and sales for Asia-Pacific region. His experience spans sales, marketing, HR and operations functions.

Through his career Manoj has sought challenging and non traditional assignments He has led multiple new initiatives including those in strategic account management, talent sourcing automation and sales force transformation. Under his leadership his teams have developed pioneering new tools around Business Process Management, Governance, Integrated Publishing Platforms to name a few.

Manoj holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management and a Bachelors Degree Engineering in Electronics from Bangalore University. Manoj is a part of the senior management team at Wipro and is based in New Jersey.