N. R. Narayana Murthy

N. R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Infosys in 1981 and served as its chief executive officer until 2002.

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Nandan Nilekani: An Indian entrepreneur and politician who co-founded Infosys and later chaired the Unique Identification Authority of India. Murthy’s Infosys co-founder, Nilekani helped expand the company and later led its board.
Infosys: An Indian information technology company that provides consulting, software development, and outsourcing services. Murthy co-founded Infosys in Pune in 1981 and led it through its formative decades.
Indian information technology industry: The sector of India’s economy devoted to software, IT services, and related technology businesses. Infosys’s expansion under Murthy became one of the industry’s defining growth stories.
Azim Premji: An Indian entrepreneur who transformed Wipro into a major information technology company and led its philanthropic work. Premji built a rival Indian IT-services firm through a different corporate history and ownership structure.
Kris Gopalakrishnan: An Indian computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Infosys and served as its chief executive from 2007 to 2011. Gopalakrishnan was among the six colleagues who founded Infosys with Murthy.
Patni Computer Systems: An Indian information technology company founded in 1978 that provided software and technology services. Murthy worked at Patni before leaving with colleagues to establish Infosys.
Global delivery model: A business model that combines work performed at client sites with services delivered from remote locations. Infosys used distributed delivery to serve international clients from India at competitive cost.
Tata Consultancy Services: An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company founded in 1968. TCS offers a contrasting, older route to global scale in Indian technology services.
S. D. Shibulal: An Indian entrepreneur and Infosys co-founder who served as the company’s chief executive from 2011 to 2014. Shibulal was another co-founder who later succeeded Murthy as CEO.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: A public technical university in Kanpur, India, established in 1959. Murthy earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering there before entering the technology industry.