N. Narayana
Description N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Chairman of our Board and Chief Mentor. Mr. Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 and has served on our Board since then. Mr. Murthy served as our CEO for over 20 years between 1981 and 2002, and as the Executive Chairperson of our Board from 2002 to 2006. He retired from employment with Infosys in August 2006. Mr. Murthy also serves as a director on the boards of Infosys China and Infosys Consulting. Mr. Murthy serves as a director on the boards of HSBC Holdings PLC, Unilever NV and Unilever PLC. He is an IT advisor to the governments of several Asian countries. Additionally, during the past five years, Mr. Murthy has served as a director on the boards of DBS Bank Limited, DBS Group Holdings Limited and New Delhi Television Limited. Mr. Murthy is a member of the advisory boards and councils of several educational and philanthropic institutions, including Cornell University; Ford Foundation; INSEAD; Indian Institute of Management Technology, Bangalore; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Singapore Management University; United Nations Foundation; and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Murthy was ranked as India's most powerful CEO for three consecutive years between 2004 and 2006 by the Economic Times. In 2004, TIME Magazine identified him as one of ten global leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. In 2005, The Economist magazine ranked him among the ten most admired global business leaders. Mr. Murthy has won the Max Schmidheiny Liberty 2001 prize and Ernst and Young?s World Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 award. He has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators in several publications, including those by Business Standard, Business Week, CNN, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, India Today and TIME Magazine. Mr. Murthy was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, by the Government of India in 2008. The Government of France conferred on him the Officer of the Legion of Honor in 2008. Mr. Murthy has also been conferred with the title of CBE by the British government. Mr. Murthy received a B. E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore and an M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT, Kanpur. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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