1.
Vishal Sikka
CEO & MD of Infosys

2.
EARLY LIFE OF VISHAL SIKKA
• Born on 1 June 1967 (age 47), Madhya Pradesh.
• Son of an Indian Railway Officer and a teacher(A Punjabi
Family).
• Bachelors in Computer Engineering at Maharaja Savairao
University, Baroda.
• BS - Computer Science at Syracuse University, New York.
• Doctoral program at Stanford University (Integrating
Specialized Procedures into Proof Systems ),1996.

3.
EARLY CARRIER
• Vice President of Peregrine Systems for Platform
Technologies - responsible for application
development, integration technologies.
• Researcher at Xerox in their Palo Alto lab -
extensive experience with internet, distributed e-
commerce research using database and
knowledge-based technologies.

4.
• Served as a member of the advisory board for
Coghead (2006 -2009).
• Executive board of the CTO Forum(2009), an
influential industry non-profit community.
• Bodha - served as its President, Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.

5.
SAP - German software company
• Executive Board Member of SAP in 2002 heading the
advanced technology for innovative projects.
• Senior Vice President of Architecture and Chief
Software Architect, responsible for the road map and the
direction for the architecture of SAP's products.

6.
• Global Managing Board for all SAP products and
innovation globally by developing of all products across
SAP’s product including Applications, Analytics, Cloud,
Database & Technology and Mobile.
• Breakthrough in-memory platform (SAP HANA).
• The creator of ‘timeless software’, which represents the
renewal of products without disruption to customer
environments.
• Left the SAP board in May 2014 after serving for 12 years.

7.
VISHAL INTO INFOSYS
• Infosys Ltd, India's second-largest IT services
announced him as a whole-time CEO and MD on
12 June 2014.
• Receives $5.08 Million (30 Crores) and stock
options worth $2 million as annual compensation.
• Will be appointed for a five year period ending
June 13, 2019.

8.
"To lead Infosys is nothing less than a
privilege, and an opportunity of a
lifetime. And as I get started on this
journey today, I am ready for the
transition that must follow. My own"

9.
HIGHEST PAID IT CEO
‘The Indian-born US citizen is the
highest paid professional IT CEO,
running not just domestic
information technology firms but
companies across sectors’

10.
HIS WORK @ INFOSYS
• Innovation at the centre of Infosys's strategy,
invest aggressively in start ups of India's
software services industry back to its status
next two years.
• His idea was to make the company balance
between innovating for the future and ensuring
that existing business is not compromised.

11.
• 'Murmuration', soliciting ideas for new ways of
working at Infosys. mingled with scores of
employees on Infosys's 90-acre Bangalore
campus, shooting the breeze with young
engineers.
• He wants Infosys to be "much more
decentralized and open management approach"
and wants to take the company towards products.

12.
• He believes a strategic tool that has the potential
to secure the future as well as the present.
"Innovation may not be a tremendous
economic driver immediately. But it becomes a
confidence driver immediately, not only for us but
also for our clients“
• Infosys, about using its Rs 30,000-crore ,it will
expand the company's presence in Silicon Valley,
the Mecca of technology where Vishal himself
will be based.

13.
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