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Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy (born 20 August 1946) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is one of the seven co-founders of Infosys , [ 6 ] and was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief mentor [ 7 ] of the company before retiring and becoming chairman emeritus.
Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni; born 19 August 1950) is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist.She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy.She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation.
From its establishment in 1981 until 2014, Infosys' CEOs were its founders, with N. R. Narayana Murthy leading the company for the initial 21 years. Dr. Dr. Vishal Sikka was the first external CEO, serving for approximately three years.
Last year, Indian tech billionaire and Infosys founder Narayana Murthy set off controversy after saying young Indians should be working 70 hours a week to help the country compete on the global stage.
Longtime Infosys CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy has returned to the company he founded in 1981 as its new executive chairman of the board, Infosys recently announced. The Infosys board approved the ...
Murthy started Infosys with six engineers with $250 in 1981, and took advantage of Western tech companies hoping to outsource IT operations to lower-cost India. He stepped down as the company's ...
Murty is the son of N. R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, and his wife Sudha Murty, an engineer and author. Shrinivas Kulkarni, a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology, is his maternal uncle and is said to have been a major influence on Murty. [7] Murty grew up with a passion for programming. [8]
In 1981, Nilekani, Murthy, and five others left Patni to start their own company, Infosys. Nilekani became the chief executive officer of Infosys in March 2002 and served as CEO of the company through April 2007, when he relinquished his position to his colleague Kris Gopalakrishnan and became co-chairman of the board of directors.