N.R. Narayana Murthy

N.R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. Infosys has 105,453 professionals (including subsidiaries) as of Nov. 9, 2009. It has offices in 22 countries and development centers in India, China, Australia, UK, Canada and Japan.

He is currently the non--executive Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with 6 other software professional with an initial investment of Rs. 12000 only. He was the CEO of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as CEO in 2002, he has broadened his scope of activities to social services as well as promoting India globally. Born in a Kannada Madhva Brahmin Family in Mysore, India on August 20, 1946, Murthy graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967 after attending government school, and received his master's degree from IIT kanpur in 1969.

He retired from his executive position at Infosys on 20 August, 2006. However, he continues as the Non-Executive Chairman of the board.

N.R. Narayana Murthy

N.R. Narayana Murthy -"Leadership is all about courage to dream big".