This is the Presentation about Narayana Murthy, founder of INFOSYS, which i have presented at my college, Bangalore Institute of Management Studies.

1. N. R. Narayana Murthy

2. • Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy born
20 August 1946, better known as N. R.
Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist
and software engineer. He is the founder and
Chairman Emeritus of Infosys.

3. • Born into a Kannada Madhwa Brahmin family
in Mysore, Karnataka on August 20, 1946.
Murthy graduated with a degree in electrical
engineering from the National Institute of
Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967
after attending government school. He
received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur
in 1969

4. CAREER
• His first position was at IIM Ahmedabad as
chief systems programmer where he worked
on a time-sharing system and designed and
implemented a BASIC interpreter for ECIL
(Electronics Corporation of India Limited)

5. • After IIM Ahmedabad, he joined Patni
Computer Systems in Pune. Murthy met his
wife Sudha Murthy in Pune who at the time
was an engineer working at Tata Engineering
and Locomotive Co. Ltd.
• Telco, now known as Tata Motors.

6. • Infosys started its operations in a 10x10 room
with a capital investment of just Rs 10,000, which
was borrowed from Murthy's wife, Sudha Murthy.
Now, its revenues have grown to Rs 27,000 crore.
• At its inception, he invited six other engineers to
join the company.
• Murthy served as the founder CEO of Infosys for
21 years, and was succeeded by co-founder
Nandan Nilekani in March 2002.

7. • Then he was the Executive Chairperson of the
board from 2002 to 2006.
• He retired from his executive position at
Infosys on August 20, 2006, after which he has
been the non-executive chairman of the board
and chief mentor of the company.

8. • Now, Murthy handed over his role to KV
Kamath, who has been an independent director
on the Infosys board since May, 2009.

9. • SD Sibulal will take over as the new CEO and
MD, S Gopalakrishnan will be Executive Co-
Chairman of Infosys. Kris Gopalakrishnan, the
current CEO of Infosys, who is also a co-
founder, has been elevated as the Executive
Co-Chairman.

10. • Murthy's exit as the chairman will mark the
end of a formal association with the company,
but he will continue to guide the organization
in the capacity of Chairman Emeritus.

11. • "I would be called Chairman Emeritus. I will
have a room which I can use if I want... but as
propriety demands, I will have no say in any
matter, I will not be allowed to attend any
board meetings or any meetings. I can meet
anybody personally,"

12. • Murthy's vision and business sense made the
company go from strength to strength. In 1993,
Infosys got listed in the Indian markets and
later became the first Indian company to be
listed on the New York-based NASDAQ in
1999.

13. • "If any one person can be called the father of
India's booming IT sector, it's N R Narayana
Murthy, who with six other software engineers
founded Infosys Technologies in 1981”, Times
Magazine had said.

14. • Murthy is having a venture capital initiative,
Catamaran Investment Private Ltd, to focus his
energies on mentoring and funding the next
generation of Indian entrepreneurs.

15. • Murthy comes from a humble background and
even after becoming a billionaire, he continues
to lead a simple life.
• Murthy's outstanding leadership qualities have
been universally recognized and he serves on
the boards of some of the world's biggest
companies and organizations.

16. • Murthy had the opportunity to lead a public
life, but declined an offer from former Prime
Minister A B Vajpayee to join the government.
He had then felt Infosys needed him more.

17. • He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the
country's second-highest civilian award after
the Bharat Ratna, in 2008.

18. BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
• Murthy serves as an independent director on
the boards of HSBC, DBS Bank and Unilever.
He also serves on the boards of the Ford
Foundation, UN Foundation, Indo-British
Partnership, and NDTV. He is the chairman of
the Governing board of Public Health
Foundation of India.

19. • He is a member of the Advisory Boards and
Councils of the Stanford Graduate School of
Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at
the Harvard Business School, the Indian School
of Business, Cornell University committee on
academic affairs, the committee on alumni affairs
and development at Yale University, the William
F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the
Tuck School of Business, and the University of
Tokyo’s President's Council.

20. • He is a member of the Board of Directors of
INSEAD, the Board of Overseers of the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania,
Singapore Management University, Asian
Institute of Management (AIM), the Board of
Members of School of Management at Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), Asia Business
Council and Business Advisory Council of Great
Lakes Institute of Management and International
Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.

21. PERSONAL LIFE
• His wife, Sudha Murthy, is an Indian social
worker and accomplished author. She is known
for her philanthropic work through the Infosys
Foundation. Her sister, Jayashree Despande is
wife of enterpreneur and founder of US-based
Sycamore Networks, Gururaj Despande.

22. • They have two children - Rohan and Akshata.
Rohan is married to Venu Srinivasan's (of TVS
motors) daughter Lakshmi Venu. Akshata
Murthy is married to Rishi Sunak.

23. AWARDS & REGOGNITION
• Awards and honours.pdf

24. BOOKS
• A Better India, A Better World, Penguin Books,
2009

25. THANK YOU

26. PRESENTED BY
NIKHIL V V