IT Guru of India
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy comes across as a very simple human being. But beneath his simplicity lies the heavy persona of a man who is today one of the most powerful man in the Indian IT circles. The company he set up, along with six other professionals in 1981, became the first Indian company to be listed on the U.S. stock exchange. Infosys is an IT consulting and service provider, providing end-to-end solutions for global corporations. Today, Infosys is acknowledged by its clients, its employees, its vendor-partners, and its investors and by society-at-large as a highly respected, dynamic and innovative company. Narayana Moorthy remains an inspiration to youngsters, and his simple living and intellectual thinking instill values and dreams in the minds of many budding entrepreneurs.Narayana Murthy's upbringing has been from the best of value systems. Simplicity and humility percolate within him. By his own admission, there are perhaps hundreds and millions of Indians who are smarter than him. He considers himself very lucky. He believes that if one realizes that whatever one has received is an act of God, then it will help in getting better and better. He quotes someone having said, "If God is shy to an
After completing his BE in electrical engineering in 1967, and MTech in 1969 from IIT Kanpur, Murthy began his professional life as a Chief Systems Programmer at IIM Ahmedabad. He designed and implemented India's first BASIC interpreter and time-sharing operating system Thereafter he moved to a French company, SESA, in Paris. He designed a real-time operating system for handling air cargo for Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. After gaining considerable experience in his French stint he returned to India in 1974 at the age of 26. According to him, the time he spent in France was an important one, as it helped him to evolve as a person and to closely see the working of a developed economy (N R). It was in 1981 that he established Infosys. Since then, he has been a trendsetter and a path breaker. Today, Infosys is acknowledged by employees, investors and the general public as a highly dynamic and growth-prone company. Murthy believes in passing on his wealth to his employees and shareholders. While working in France in the 1970s, Murthy was strongly influenced by socialism. The bubble was pricked, however, when he was arrested in Bulgaria on espionage charges. Today, he says: "I'm a capitalist in mind, a socialist at heart." It was this belief in the distribution of wealth that made Infosys one of the first Indian companies to offer employees stock-option plans, a move
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