N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of
Infosys, a global software consulting company headquartered
in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981. Under his
leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999.
Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global
Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge
success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led
key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT
advisor to several Asian countries.
He serves on the boards of HSBC, Ford Foundation and
the UN Foundation. He served as a member of the Unilever
board between 2007 and 2010. He also serves on the boards of
Wharton School; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Rhodes
Trust, and International Institute of Information
Technology, Bangalore.
The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten
most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the
Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three
consecutive years: 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the
Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Légion
d’honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the
British government. He is the first Indian winner of the
Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year award and the
Max Schmidheiny Liberty prize, and has appeared in the
rankings of businessmen and innovators published by India
Today, Business Standard, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Time, CNN,
Fortune, and Financial Times. He is a Fellow of the Indian
National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the
US National Academy of Engineering.
