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N. R. Narayana Murthy 

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AGENDAy Introduction

y Early Life

y Careery Board Memberships

y Personal Life

y Awards and honors

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Introductiony N. R. Narayana Murthy , is an Indian Industrialist and

software engineer.

y He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of InfosysTechnologies Limited

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Early Lifey Born into a kannada Madhwa Brahmin family in

Mysore, India on August 20, 1946

y Graduated with a degree in electrical engineering fromthe National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967

y Received Masters degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969

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Careery His first position was at IIM Ahmadabad as chief 

systems programmer

y Where he worked on a time-sharing system anddesigned and implemented a BASIC interpreter forECIL

y After IIM Ahmadabad he joined Patni ComputerSystems in Pune

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Careery Founded Infosys in 1981 in Pune with an initial capital

of US$250

y At its inception, he invited six other engineers to jointhe company 

y Served as the founder CEO of Infosys for 21 years and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan Nilekani inMarch 2002

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Careery At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented

the Global Delivery Model

y Which has become the foundation for the hugesuccess in IT services outsourcing from India

y Served as a Chairman of the National Association of Software and service companies from 1992 to 1994

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Board Membershipsy He serves as an independent director on the boards of HSBC, DBS Bank and Unilever.

y He also serves on the boards of the Ford Foundation, UN Foundation, Indo-British Partnership, and NDTV.

y He is a member of the Advisory Boards and Councilsfor many universities

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Board Membershipsy He is a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD

y He also serves for British Telecommunications

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Personal Lifey His wife, Sudha Murthy , is an Indian social worker and

accomplished author

y They have two children- Rohan and Akshata

y Murthy is the brother-in-law of serial entrepreneur

Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande

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Awards and honorsy In the year 2008 he awarded Padma Vibhushan by 

President of India

y In 2003, achieved a Indo French Forum Medal awardedby Indo-French Forum

y In 2000, he was awarded with Padma Shri by Presidentof India

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Awards and honorsy In 2003, he was awarded with Asias Businessmen of 

the year by Fortune Magazine

y In 1996, he was awarded with JRD CorporateLeadership Award by All India Management

 Association(AIMA)

y He is the first Indian winner of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year award