NARAYAN MURTHY

&
INFOSYS
PRESENTED BY

JB

THE SUMMARY
Born into a Kannada family in Mysore,
India on August 20, 1946.

B.E. Electrical from University of

Mysore (1967) and M.Tech from IIT
Kanpur (1969).

Narayan Murthy began his career

with Patni Computer Systems in Pune.

In 1981, Narayana Murthy founded

Infosys with six other software
professionals.

CONTD
In 1987, Infosys opened its first international office in
U.S.A.

With the liberalization of Indian economy in 1990s,

Infosys grew rapidly.
1993, the company came up with its IPO.

In 1995, Infosys set up development centers across

cities in India and in 1996, it set up its first office in
Europe in Milton Keynes, UK.

In 1999, Infosys became the first Indian company to

be listed on NASDAQ.

FURTHER CONTD
In 2002, Infosys was ranked No. 1 in the "Best
Employers in India 2002" survey conducted by Hewitt
and in the Business World's survey of "India's Most
Respected Company." Conducted in the same year.

Today (in 2006), Infosys has a turnover of more than

$ 2billion and has employee strength of over 50,000.

In 2009, his lectures delivered around the world have

been published as a book A Better India: A Better
World .

Success Factors
Invest in well understood, proven product & not
just
R&D
While dealing with investors, always underpromise
and over deliver
Have a healthy sense of paranoia and respect for
the competition
Leaders in the making.

HIS JOURNEY OF LIFE

His first position was at IIM Ahmadabad 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).

After IIM Ahmedabad, he then joined Patni

Computer Systems in Pune.

Wanted to become politicion and open a

orphanage

Married to Sudha Murthy on February 10, 1978

Visionary mind, seen future trends

Sudha acted as a clerk-cum-cook-cumprogrammer

CONTD
In 1981, with an investment of Rs.10,000 ($250 at the
time) from his wife, he founded Infosys with six other
software professionals.

In 1983 Infosys got their first client, MICO, in

Bangalore.

After ten years of struggling INFOSYS was still not up

and running and Narayan Murthy offers( wittily ) to buy
back six others for a hand some amount of a million
dollar, then in next ten years INFOSYS become first
billion dollar company and rest is History.

He served as the president of the National Association

of Software and Service Companies, India from 1992 to
1994.

CONTD
Murthy started a new venture capital fund called
Catamaran Venture Fund with the money he got by
selling 800,000 Infosys shares worth 174 Crores. Sudha
Murthy does it again by helping him in setting up his VC
Fund by giving him Rs.430 crores which she got by
selling quarter of her stake 1.6% in Infosys.

Murthy retired from his executive position at Infosys

on 20 August 2006. However, he continues as the NonExecutive Chairman of the board.

ABOUT INFOSYS
BASED IN BANGALORE, IS PUBLICLY HELD, ISO 9001
CERTIFIED COMPANY OFFERING INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING AND SOFTWARE SERVICES.

RESPECTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WITH VERY STRONG

SYSTEMS, HIGH ETHICAL VALUES AND A NURTURING
WORKING ATMOSPHERE.

VOTED AS THE BEST MANAGED COMPANY IN ASIA.

CHAMPIONED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA.

BIGGEST EXPORTERS OF SOFTWARES.

More than 1 lakhs employees worldwide

AWARDS RECIEVED
In June 2000, Asiaweek magazine featured him in a
list of Asia's 50 Most Powerful People.

In 2001, Narayana Murthy was named by TIME/CNN

as one of the 25 most influential global executives.

He was the first recipient of the Indo-French Forum

Medal (2003) and was voted the World Entrepreneur of
the Year - 2003 by Ernst and Young.

CONTD
The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy eighth on the
list of the 15 most admired global leaders (2005) and
Narayan Murthy also topped the Economic Times
Corporate Dossier list of India's most powerful CEOs
for two consecutive years - 2004 and 2005.

In December 2005, Narayana Murthy was voted as the

7th most admired CEO/Chairman in the world in a global
study conducted by Burson-Marsteller with the
Economist Intelligence Unit . The list included 14 others
with distinguished names such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs
and Warren Buffett.

CONTD
In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, a
second highest civilian award by India and Lgion
d'honneur, the highest civilan award awarded by France.

Murthy also holds over 26 honorary doctorates from

universities across the world.

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