N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian businessman
and a software engineer. He is the founder and
currently the non-executive Chairman and Chief
Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited.
Murthy currently serves as an independent
director on the boards of DBS Bank, HSBC and
Unilever. He also serves on the boards of the
Ford Foundation, UN Foundation, Indo-British
Partnership, and NDTV.
He is a present member of the Advisory Boards
and Councils of the Stanford Graduate School of
Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at
the Harvard Business School, Indian School of
Business, Cornell University committee on
academic affairs and committee on alumni affairs
and development, Yale University and the
University of Tokyo’s President's Council. He is
a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD,
Board of Overseers of the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, Singapore Management
University, Board of Trustees and the Board of
Advisors for the William F. Achtmeyer Center for
Global Leadership at the Tuck School of
Business, Asian Institute of Management (AIM),
Board of Members of School of Management at
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Asia
Business Council and Business Advisory Council
of Great Lakes Institute of Management and
International Institute of Information
Technology - Bangalore.
He also serves as a director of the Central
Board of the Reserve Bank of India and as
Co-Chairman of the Plc. He is a member of the
Prime Minister of India's council on trade and
industry and is a member of the Asia Advisory
Board of the British Telecommunications.
In August 2004, TIME magazine’s listed him under
“Global Tech Influentials” as one of the ten
leaders who are helping shape the future of
technology. In November 2006, TIME magazine
again voted him as one of the Asian heroes who
have brought about revolutionary changes in Asia
in the last 60 years. |
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