My Favorite Personality

Narayana Murthy
Presented by:-Ravi Agarwal

Introduction

Narayana Murthy finished his undergraduate in electrical engineering from Mysore University in 1967 and then went on to obtain a master's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur. After that he worked at IIM Ahmedabad and then worked for a few years in France.

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In 1978 he was hired as the general manager at Patni Computers. His wife, Sudha Murthy did her graduate at the prestigious IISc Bangalore and since 1974 worked for Telco , a Tata company. Conservative estimate of her 1981 earnings at Telco is 5,000 to 6,000 rupees a month.

Impressions from his life

When they started Infosys in 1981, they were seven people, and they put together about USD250 at current exchange rates. They were short of money, but they were very long on hope. This down-to-earth man had to mortgage his wife Sudha's jewelry for Rs. 10,000 to put some funds in the company. - ZDNet India

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Today, Infosys is acknowledged by customers, employees, investors and the general public as a highly respected, dynamic and innovative company. In March 1999, Infosys Technologies became the first Indiaregistered company to be listed on an American stock exchange (NASDAQ: INFY).

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They feels we need to review our reservation policy. He expressed this on Aug 11, 2001 during the convocation address at IIT, Delhi. He said perhaps we are the only nation in the world were people fight to be called backward rather than forward.

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He said I want Infosys to be a place where people of different genders, nationalities, races and religious beliefs work together in an environment of intense competition but utmost harmony, courtesy and dignity to add more and more value to our customers day after day. Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

Honors and Awards

The ET Businessperson Of The Year Award [2000-2001] He has been featured in the Asiaweek Power 50 (June 2000) - a list of Asia's Most Powerful People Business Week chose him as one of "The Stars of Asia" for three successive years, in 1998, 1999 and 2000 He has been awarded the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award for 1996-97

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He has been awarded with the Alumni Award for the year 1998 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur He is the Co-Chairman of the Indo-British Partnership He is a member of the Asia Society's International Council and Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California School of Engineering. He is also on the Wharton Business School's Asian Executive Board

References

www.forbes.com www.infosys.com

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