Wipro Technologies has appointed Ayan Mukerji as the global head of product engineering services (PES) group, effective April, 2010.

According to the company, Mukerji will take over from V R Venkatesh and will relocate to California. Venkatesh, who has held various positions within the PES business of Wipro, will now head the newly created strategic external innovation group.

Jeffrey Heenan Jalil will take over the reins from Mukerji as the head of Europe operations. According to the company, the scope of these collaborative innovation efforts will span across all the business units that it supports.

Girish Paranjpe, joint chief executive officer — IT business and member of the board of Wipro, said, “The present restructuring is in line with the company’s strategy of creating strong customer centric global management teams. Our external innovation group will work very closely with the global innovation eco-system and accelerate solution development significantly while taking advantage of emerging technologies.”