NAME :

DHANESH B PILLAI
FACULTY : T.Y Bachelor Of Management Studies
Subject :
Business Ethics
Project On : Role Model In Business.
Submitted To : AMELIA ANTONY

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy commonly referred to as Narayana

Murthy, is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational
corporation providing business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing
services. Murthy studied electrical engineering at the National Institute of
Engineering, University of Mysore, and M. Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur. He has often been called the father of Indian IT industry. He is known
worldwide to be an IT wizard and influential in taking corporate governance to a
different level in India. He is an inspiration to people worldwide and his leadership
ideas are being imitated far and wide.

Formative Years and Education:

Narayana Murthy was born on 20 August 1946 to Sri R H Kulkarni and Vimala Kulkarni at
Mysore, located in the Indian state of Karnataka. After completing his school education, he
appeared for the Indian Institute of Technology entrance test but could not attend. Instead he
went to the National Institute of Engineering and graduated in 1967 with a degree in Electrical
Engineering. In 1969 he received his master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in
Kanpur.
Poverty and social upliftment issues were always a major concern for him. Job creation and
finding a unique entrepreneurship idea was the only solution for these social evils, dawned on
him. He was inspired by his father and his teachers to be curious and articulate. Coming from a
low income middle class family, he was taught from early childhood the values of sacrifice, truth
and public welfare. His biggest mantra for success is Keep your life simple and straight.
That way, you get to work more and worry less.

 Career
Murthy started his career at IIM Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer. There he worked on
India's first time-sharing computer system and designed and implemented a BASIC interpreter
for Electronics Corporation of India Limited.He started a company named Softronics. When that
company failed after about a year and a half, he joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune.

Mr. Murthy founded Infosys Technologies along with his six friends in 1981. He
worked as the CEO of the company for 21 years and was later succeeded by co-founder
Nandan Nilekani in 2002. He had retired in 2011 as the Chairman Emeritus. He has
joined the company again and promised to bring it around in 36 months. Before starting
Infosys he has worked as chief systems programmer for IIM- Ahmadabad. Traditionally
the company laid emphasis on high margin business. But now they are adopting a flexible
approach to handle rival companies. They are committed to focusing on application,
development of BPOs. He will now focus on third stream revenue outsourcing projects.
He was the key man to design and implement the Global Delivery Model for IT services
outsourced from India.

Positions:
Besides working for Infosys he also holds other key posts.
He serves as a director in Independent capacity of HSBC.
He also serves as a director on the boards of DBS Bank, Unilever, ICICI and
NDTV.
He serves on the boards and councils of many educational institutions like
Cornell University, INSEAD, ESSEC, Ford and UN Foundation.
He holds the post of Chairman of the Governing Board of Public Health
Foundation of India.
He was chosen as one of the 50 most powerful people in Asia in 2000, in a poll
conducted by Asia week.
He serves on the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications.
In 2005 he co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos.