About WNS

Board of Directors

Adrian T. DillonChairman, WNS (Holdings) Ltd.

Mr. Adrian T. Dillon serves as Chairman of the Board of WNS (Holdings) Ltd. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit & Risk Committee and of the Compensation Committee of HealthEquity, Inc., as well as Chairman of the Cybersecurity Committee. Mr. Dillon was a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of NDS Group Limited, Verigy Pty and LumiLeds Inc. During his career, he held key finance roles, including Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Skype Ltd., EVP, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Agilent Technologies and held various positions at Eaton Corporation. He was a past Chairman and Member of The Conference Board Council of Financial Executives. Mr. Dillon graduated in Economics from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

Keshav MurugeshChief Executive Officer

Keshav R. Murugesh was appointed as our Group Chief Executive Officer and director in February 2010. Mr. Murugesh is based out of Mumbai. Prior to joining WNS, Mr. Murugesh was the Chief Executive Officer of Syntel Inc., a Nasdaq-listed information technology company. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Prior to Syntel, he worked in various capacities with ITC Limited, an affiliate of BAT Plc. between 1989 and 2002. Keshav is also the Past Chairman of NASSCOM* (2019-2020) and a member of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council. Presently, he is an Executive Council member of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (“NASSCOM”). Previously, he held the position of Chairman and a Director at the Data Security Council of India, a not-for-profit, industry body on data protection in India set up by NASSCOM (from 2019 to 2020) and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Council of NASSCOM. He was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of NASSCOM (from 2017 to 2018) of which he stepped off on being elected Vice Chairman and the Honorary Chairman of The Confederation of Indian Industry - Western India’s Education Committee (from 2017 to 2018). He has also served as a former chairman of the BPM Council at NASSCOM. NASSCOM is the industry association for the IT-BPM sector in India. He is on the Board of WNS Cares Foundation, a company that focuses on sustainability initiatives. He was the Chairman of SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) India, which is a global organization involved in educational outreach projects in partnership with businesses across the globe, from 2005 to 2011. The business address of Mr. Murugesh is Gate 4, Godrej & Boyce Complex, Pirojshanagar, Vikhroli West, Mumbai 400079, India.

* National Association of Software and Services Companies

Sir Anthony GreenerDirector

Sir Anthony Armitage Greener was appointed to the WNS Board in June 2007. Sir Anthony is based in London and is the Chairman of Minton Trust and St. Giles Trust. Prior to WNS, he served as Deputy Chairman of British Telecom and Chairman of Diageo plc. Earlier, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive of Guinness plc and CEO of Dunhill Holdings. Sir Anthony was also a Director on the Board of Robert Mondavi and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. He is presently an independent Director at Williams-Sonoma Inc. Sir Anthony was honored with a Knighthood in 1999 for his services to the beverage industry.

Albert AboodyDirector

Mr. Albert Aboody was appointed to the WNS Board in June 2010 as an independent Director. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Aboody was an Audit Partner at KPMG LLP (U.S.) where he worked on significant client assignments and participated in the establishment of policies and overseeing of professional practice accounting and auditing matters as a Member of the firm's National Office. In this capacity, he also reviewed filings by registrants with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and engaged in discussions with the SEC on accounting and auditing issues affecting KPMG clients. He has also been on the Advisory Board of KPMG India, served as its Deputy Chairman and Head of its audit department. He co-authored the chapter on SEC Reporting Requirements appearing in the 2001-2008 annual editions of the Corporate Controller's Manual. Mr. Aboody is a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and was a Research Scholar in philosophy at Cambridge University after graduating with a bachelor's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Renu S KarnadDirector

Ms. Renu S Karnad was appointed to the WNS Board in September 2012 as an independent Director. Ms. Karnad is the Managing Director of the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Ltd., an organization she has been with since 1978. She is also a Director on several other Boards, including BOSCH Ltd. and AKZO Nobel India Ltd. In her current role, Ms. Karnad is responsible for strategy, budget, product development and distribution for Indian lending operations. She is keenly involved in policy planning in the Indian housing industry. Over the years, Ms. Karnad has had to her credit, numerous awards and accolades, such as ‘Outstanding Woman Business Leader' at the CNBC-TV18 Indian Business Leader Awards (IBLA) 2012. She was also a part of Business Today Magazine's Power List 2011 of 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN PROFESSIONALS IN INDIA and was honored by IMC Ladies' wing for outstanding contribution by a woman in the field of Banking and Financial Services in the year 2011. Ms. Karnad is a Law graduate from the University of Mumbai, and holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Delhi. She is a Parvin Fellow from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs.

Gareth WilliamsDirector

Mr. Gareth Williams was appointed to the WNS Board in January 2014. Presently, Mr. Williams serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Cicely Saunders International a charity that funds research and education on Palliative care. He also serves as an independent director of SAGA plc. He served as a Chairman and member of the Board of YSC until November 2017. Prior to his appointment to WNS Board, he was Director, Human Resources at Diageo plc and also served as the advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Diageo plc, one of the world's leading premium drink companies and was also the Head of Human Resources at Diageo from January 1999. He held a series of key positions in HR at Grand Metropolitan, plc in North America and the UK from 1984 to 1998, leading up to the merger with Guinness that formed Diageo. Before joining Grand Metropolitan, he spent 10 years with Ford of Britain in a number of HR roles. Mr. Williams graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Warwick University.

Michael MenezesDirector

Mr. Michael Menezes was appointed to the WNS Board in January 2014. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Menezes presently serves as the advisor to Fairfax India and also as an Executive-in-Residence to the MBA students at Ryerson University in Toronto on a voluntary basis. He is the President of Acumentor Inc. a sole proprietary business engaged in providing consulting and other services. Most recently, he was the special advisor to the Continental Bank of Canada. He was also CFO, Technology, Operations and Corporate Group at Bank of Montreal from 2000 to 2012. Mr. Menezes has over two decades of global exposure, both as CEO and CFO in the Financial Services, Consumer Goods and Agri-business sectors. In his previous stints, he has been the CFO for ONIC (Holding), CEO of ITC Agro Tech Ltd., India, apart from holding various senior finance roles at ITC Ltd. in India. Mr. Menezes received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from University of Delhi, India, a Master’s degree in Economics from London School of Economics, UK and qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

John FreelandDirector

Mr. John Freeland was appointed to the WNS Board in September 2014. Currently, Mr. Freeland is the Chairman and Co-founder of Surface Architectural Supply Inc, Chairman and founder of JF Manufacturing LLC and he is the founder of JF Fitness of North America. He is on the Board of Scout Logic, Inc. He brings over 35 years of experience to WNS, most recently as President and CEO of Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), a leading global provider of information, insights and decision solutions. In his previous roles, he was President - Worldwide Operations for salesforce.com and a Managing Partner at Accenture in the areas of global Insurance and global Customer Relationship Management. During his 26-year career at Accenture, he was also appointed a member of Accenture’s executive committee. Mr. Freeland has a B.A. degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

Francoise GriDirector

Ms. Francoise Gri was appointed to the WNS Board in May 2015.She is a chairperson of INSEECU and is a member of the Board of Directors at Credit Agricole, Credit Agricole Investment Banking and Edenred. Ms. Gri brings over 30 years of international business experience to WNS, most recently as CEO of Pierre & Vacances-Center Parcs Group, the European leader in local tourism. In her previous roles, she was Executive Vice President - France, and then for all of Southern Europe, at Manpower, Inc., a world leader in workforce solutions who she joined in 2007. During her 26-year career at IBM, she served in the role of President and Country GM for IBM France. She has been on Fortune’s global list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” since 2007. Ms. Gri is a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees ENSIMAG) in Grenoble, France.

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