Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys
Technologies Limited
Mr. N. R. Narayana
Murthy is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of
Infosys Technologies Limited. He founded Infosys in 1981
along with six other software professionals and served
as the CEO for 21 years before handing over the reins of
the company to co-founder Nandan M. Nilekani in March
2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ
in 1999. He served as the Executive Chairman of the
Board and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006.
Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the
Global Delivery Model, which has become the foundation
for the success of IT services outsourcing from India.
He has also led key corporate governance initiatives in
India.
Mr. Murthy is an IT advisor to several Asian
countries. He serves as an independent director on the
boards of several global companies including Unilever,
London and DBS Bank, Singapore. He is also a member of
the advisory boards and councils of several educational
institutions including Wharton, Cornell, INSEAD,
Stanford, Tokyo University, SMU - Singapore, Indian
Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B)
and ESSEC, Paris.
Mr. Murthy is the recipient of numerous awards and
honors. The Economist ranked him 8th on its list of 15
most admired global leaders in 2005. He was ranked 28th
among the world's most respected business leaders by The
Financial Times in 2005. In 2004, TIME magazine
identified him as one of ten global leaders who are
helping shape the future of technology. He was featured
in BusinessWeek’s “The Stars of Asia” consecutively from
1998 to 2000. He was voted the “World Entrepreneur of
the Year” by Ernst & Young in 2003 and as India's
most powerful CEO for three consecutive years (2004 to
2006) by The Economic Times. He received the Ernst Weber
Engineering Leadership medal from The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007 for his
pioneering role in the globalization of IT services.
Mr. Murthy holds a B. E. (Electrical) from the
University of Mysore (1967) and M. Tech. (Electrical)
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1969).
He has been conferred honorary doctorate degrees by
leading universities across the world.
