Shri.

N R Narayana Murthy: Father of Indian IT sector

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Additional Director, Executive Chairman of the board for a period of five years, for a
company whose Revenue is:US$9.02 bn in LTM Q2 FY16 and
has 187,000+ employees
• The only Indian company to have won the Asian Most
Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award 12
times, the first one being in the year 2000. It has
bagged the award, this year as well.
• Infosys has been positioned as a leader in Gartner’s
International Retail Core Banking report for its Finacle
Core Banking solution. This is the eighth time in a row
that Infosys has been named a leader.
 N R Narayana Murthy
Early Life:
• Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy.

• DOB:20 August 1946.

• Place: Sidlaghatta, Kolar District, Karnataka.

• Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys.

• Studied electrical engineering at the National Institute of

Engineering, University of Mysore, and M. Tech at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
 CAREER INCEPTION

• Before starting Infosys, Murthy worked with Indian Institute of

Management Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer and Patni Computer
Systems in Pune (Maharashtra).

• He started Infosys in 1981 and served as its CEO from 1981 to 2002 and as
chairman from 2002 to 2011.

• In 2011, he stepped down from the board and became Chairman Emeritus.

• On 1 June 2013, Murthy was appointed as Additional Director and

Executive Chairman of the board for a period of five years.
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.

Murthy and six software professionals founded Infosys in 1981 with an

initial capital injection of Rs 10,000 which was provided by his

wife Sudha Murthy.
 LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENTS
• Murthy serves as an independent director on the corporate board of HSBC and

has served as a director on the boards of DBS

Bank, Unilever, ICICI and NDTV.

•  He also serves as a member of the advisory boards and councils of several

educational and philanthropic institutions, including Cornell

University, INSEAD, ESSEC, Ford Foundation, the UN Foundation, the Indo-

British Partnership, Asian Institute of Management, a trustee of the Infosys

Prize, and as a trustee of the Rhodes Trust. He is also Chairman of the

Governing board of Public Health Foundation of India. He serves on the Asia

Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications. 

• In 2005 he co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos.

 SERVICES AT INFOSYS

• CEO of Infosys for 21 years

• Chairman of Infosys for 5 years

• Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor.

• In August 2011, he retired from the company, taking the
title Chairman Emeritus.
• On 1 June 2013, Murthy returned to Infosys as Executive
Chairman and Additional Director.
 AWARDS
• 2013 Sayaji Ratna Award Baroda Management Association, Vadodara

• 2013 Philanthropist of the Year The Asian Awards

• 2012 Hoover Medal American Society of Mechanical Engineers

• 2011 NDTV Indian of the Year's Icon of India NDTV

• 2010 IEEE Honorary Membership by Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers.

• 2009 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship Woodrow

Wilson International Center for Scholars

• 2008 Padma Vibhushan Government of India

• 2008 Officer of the Legion of Honor Government of France

• 2007 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Government of United Kingdom

• 2007 IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• 2003 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year Award.

• 2000 Padma Shri Government of India

 MANAGEMENT STYLES
• You might fail, but get started again, Learn from mistakes and move on

• Think Big. Don’t Hesitate to Start Small

• Cut Yourself a Slice, Not a Large One Always

• Lend a Hand and Throw in a Foot Too

• Own Up, and Then Clean Up

• Trust in God, But Verify with Data

• Keep the Faith

• Get Involved

• Sharing is Caring
 MANAGEMENT STYLES

• Treat your People Good, but Your Best Better

• Hire a Good Accountant, Even if he is

Argumentative
• Leave the Family Out
• Don’t be a Push over
 MANAGEMENT STYLES

• Make hay while the Sun Shines

• Brand-aid First, Get Clinical

• Mind you’re Business, you’ll see Things Coming

• Founders Keepers, but Not Forever

• Talent Spotting and Division of Labor

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