Narayana Murthy

Founder-Chairman of Infosys since 1981, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He serves on the boards of HSBC, Ford Foundation and the UN Foundation. He served as a member of the Unilever board (2007-2010). He served as Chairman of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (2002-2012) and Chairman of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2002- 2007). The Economist ranked him among the ten most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.