Does Salil Parekh smoke?: Not Known.Does Salil Parekh drink Alcohol?: No.Salil Parekh is graduated from IIT Bombay and completed his Masters Degree from New York, USA.He has around 30 years of experience with Service based companies and this was one of the factors, which made him the strongest candidate to be the CEO of leading IT Company Infosys.After Vishal Sikka, he became the second CEO in Infosys who was not earlier been the part of Infosys co-founders list.Before joining Infosys, he has been a part of major IT Company called Capgemini for more than 25 years. He was responsible for overseeing a business cluster comprising of Application Services and Cloud Infrastructure Services.He had also worked with Ernst & Youngs in its consultancy division.In 2018, when the Board of Infosys decided to give him an annual salary of 35 crores (fixed pay of 6.5 crores and other allowances including variable pay of 9.5 crores and equities), the news of his salary started doing rounds in the media as they started comparing his salary with the former CEO of Infosys Vishal Sikka.Here is the video of an interview by Salil Parekh talking About his Entrepreneurial journey.In May 2022, Salil was reappointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of Infosys for a five-year term ending March 2027.