Infosys
Infosys
Infosys got it first client -- Data Basics Corporation from the US.
Profile
Nagavara Ramrao Narayana Murthy
(Founder & Ex.CEO of Infosys)
Born On August 20,1946.
Born into Madhva Brahmin Family in Mysore
Education:-B.E. From NIOE,Univ.Mysore 1967.
Masters From IIT Kanpur,1969.
Early life
His first position was aat IIM Ahmedabad as chief
system programmer.
He hoined PATNI computer systems,pune.
Murty met wife Sudha Murty was an engineer working
in TELCo.(Tata Motors)
They have two kids- Rohan & Akshata.
Corporate Profile
Murthy served as founder CEO of infosys for 21 years and was succceeded by co-
founder Nandan Nilekani in march 2002
Chairman & Board of Director of :-
IIIT,Bangalore
IIM Ahmedabad
Univ.Pennsylvenia
Cornell univ.
AIM,Philipines
AIT,Bankok,Thailand
Asia Business Council, Hong Kong
Also Stanford, Harvard Yale Univs.
University of Tokyo president council
Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank of Singapore
Director of central board of RBI
Co- chairman of Indo-British partnership
Board director of NDTV,India
Director of Europian FMCG gian unilever
Independent Director on the board of HSBC
Accolades
Padma vibhushan in year2008
Legion d’honneur, By france
In 2000,
He was awarded the Padma Shri.
He was first recepient of the indo french forum medal in 2003
In 1996-97,He was awarded the JRD tata corporate leadership
award
In dec 2005,Murthy was voted as the 7th most admired CEO in
the world in a global study conducted by Burson marsteller
with the economic intelligence unit.
EARLY DAYS
25 April 2003: Case settled out of court for $3 mn, payable in
a month
INITIATIVES
The Infosys Foundation (1996)
In the year 2000, President of the United States Bill Clinton
complimented India on its achievements in high technology
areas citing the example of Infosys.
In 2007, Infosys received over 1.3 million applications and hired
fewer than 3% of applicants.
Contd…
Business Week reported that Infosys, along with Wipro and
Tata accounted for nearly 80% of the [H-1B] visa petitions
approved in 2007 for the top 10 participants in the program.