TOPICS
Leadership
Management
Entrepreneur
Technology
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
English
Naranya Murthy
Narayana Murthy is the Chairman of the Board of Infosys, and its Chief Mentor. He co-founded Infosys in 1981 and served as CEO for over 20 years between 1981 and 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999, and now employs over 100,000 people world-wide. He served as the Executive Chairperson and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006, before becoming Non-Executive Chairman.
Mr. Murthy was voted the "World Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young in 2003 and 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 ranked him 8th among the 15 most admired global leaders and the Financial Times ranked him 28th among the world’s most respected business leaders. In 2007, he was chosen as the "Business Process Innovator" by the Economist.
Mr Murthy also serves as a Non-Executive Director of Unilever, HSBC and New Delhi Television Limited. He acts as an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He is also a member of the advisory boards and councils of several educational institutions including Cornell University, ESSEC, Paris, INSEAD, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Singapore Management University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of Tokyo and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.