Software giant Wipro is in a rejig mode. The company, which also has interests in consumer care products, lighting and infrastructure engineering, is forming a group that will work across the three businesses focusing on new initiatives in these areas.

Called the Global Program Team, it is headed T K Kurien, who was until recently at the helm of its BPO services.

Kurien’s move to the new role coincides with that of Sudip Banerjee’s appointment to head Azim Premji’s billion-dollar personal corpus, and that of Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe as joint CEOs.

Kurien is credited with making the BPO arm, which was largely a voice-play when it acquired Spectramind, into more of a value-added services player. After Raman Roy, the founder of Spectramind, moved out of Wipro BPO, Kurien has been heading the BPO services that is growing at an annual rate of about 22 per cent.

Wipro has made a few more changes in its business structure. The management team consisting of AL Rao, PR Chandrasekar, Sudip Nandy, Vaswani, Paranjpe, and Banerjee has been dismantled and the business units will report to the joint CEOs. The new structure will have five industry-specific business units (BUs) and five technology units.

The industry-specific BUs are –manufacturing and health care, energy and utilities, retail and transportation services, communication, media and technology, and financial services.

The technology units will be — BPO, testing, infrastructure management, enterprise application services and product engineering services.