Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy Biography and Works.

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy was born an August 20, 1946 in Mysore, Karnataka, He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967. He received his master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969.

Mr. Murthy’s first job position was at IIM Ahmedabad, where he worked as the chief systems programmer. He developed a time-sharing system and designed and implemented a BASIC interpreter for ECIL (Electronics Corporation of India Limited). After IIM Ahmedabad, he started a company named Softronics in 1976. When that company failed, he joined the Patni Computer Systems in Pune. Mr. Murthy met his wife, Sudha Murthy in Pune who was an engineer working at Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd. (Telco, now known as Tata Motors) at the time.

After settling down in Pune, Mr. Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 with an initial capital injection of Rs. 10,000, which was invested by his wife Sudha Murthy, Murthy served as the CEO of Infosys for 21 years and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan Nilekani in 2002. At Infosys, he articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He also lead the company through several key decisions including its listing on the Indian Stock Exchange and on the NASDAQ.

He held the executive position of the Chairman of the Board from 2002 to 2006, when he became the “non-executive” Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor. In August 2011, he retired completely from the company and took the title, ‘Chairman Emeritus”.

Trivia

Murthy is the brother-in-law of serial entrepreneur Gururaj”Desh Deshpandey.

Quote

“The real power of money is the power to give it away”