About narayana murthy by Sunil & Akshay

1. Sunil &
Akshay

2.  Narayana Murthy born in to 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). Narayana Murthy began his career with Patni
Computer systems in Pune. In 1981, Narayana Murthy founded
Infosys with six other software professionals.
In 1987, Infosys opened its first international office in U.S.A With
the liberalization of Indian economy in 1990s, Infosys set up
development centers across cities in India and in 1996, it set up its
first office in Europe in Milton Keynes, In 1999 Infosys became the
first Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ.

3.  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
Infosys has a turnover of more than
$ 2 billion and has employee
strength of over 50,000

4. His first position was at IIM
Ahmedabad as chief
systems programmer where
he worked on a time-
sharing system and
designed and implemented
a basic interpreter for ECIL.
After IIM Ahmedabad he
joined Patni Computers
Systems in Pune.

5. In 1981, With an investment of 10,000($250 at
the time) from his wife, he founded Infosys with
six other software professionals. In 1983 Infosys
got their first client, MICRO In Bangalore. After
ten years of struggling Infosys was still not up
and running and Narayana Murthy offers to buy
back six others for a hand some amount of
million dollar, then in next ten years Infosys
become first billion dollar company and rest is
History. He served as a president of the National
Association of Software and Service companies,
India from 1992 to 1994.

6.  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 setting up his VC
Fund by giving him Rs.430 crores which got
by selling quarter of stake 1.6% in Infosys
Murthy retired from his executive position at
Infosys 20 August 2006. However he
continues the Non-Executive Chairman of the
board.

7.  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 exports of
software's.

8.  In June 2000, Asia week magazine featured
him in a list of Asia’s 50 most powerful
people.
 In June 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.