How WNS’s Keshav Murugesh wants to make the ‘marriage made in heaven’ with Capgemini work

Murugesh also sees the earlier integration of three large billion-dollar-plus acquisitions by Capgemini, such as iGATE, Altran, and Ernst & Young’s consulting business, as giving confidence in a smooth integration. “Culturally, both CEOs (Aiman and himself) are very similar in terms of our beliefs, just the way we interact, because comfort has to come ultimately from leaders”, he says.  

While on the revenue scale, Capgemini is larger, Keshav notes that on the GBS capability, WNS is playing a more significant role. “It will be an integration where, to a very great extent, WNS will have to lead. But obviously, we will want the advantage of bringing in Capgemini’s technology solutions to accelerate, you know, some of the commitments and solutions that we will be making to our customers, more importantly, to take our entire offering suite to their global clients”, Murugesh adds.  

With the shareholders’ approval now coming through, both companies are now waiting for other regulatory approvals to put together the integration team to start the process formally. The team will decide the brand and the form of the integrated entity.