The Infosys saga
Infosys Technologies is one Indian company that has changed the way the world looks at India. It is an emblem of India's supremacy in information technology. But how much do you know about India's favourite companyInfosys wasn't N R Narayana Murthy's first entrepreneurial venture. It was actually a company named Softronics, which Murthy founded in 1976 in Pune. It was an IT consulting firm. He shut it after a while and took up a job at Patni Computer Services as the head of its software business.Narayana Murthy was born on August 29, 1946. One of the eight children born to a physics teacher in southern India, he hailed from an average middle-class family. He studied electrical engineering and obtained a master's degree in 1969. After his studies, he worked in the computer department of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His first real job overseas was in 1971 when he took up employment with SESA in Paris. He worked with a team to design a real time operating system for handling air cargo for the Charles de Gaulle airport. In 1974, at the age of 26, confident that he had gained a lot of insight into the world around him, he decided to return to India.Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan, or NSR, was employee Number One at Infosys. The oldest amongst the founders, a passable singer and a great cook, NSR was the first person Narayana Murthy spoke to about founding Infosys. Infosys was born with NSR's house in Matunga as its registered office. NSR, now retired, continues to be a Trustee of the Infosys Foundation. Murthy himself was employee Number Four. Today Infosys has over 53,000 employees. Infosys was originally founded by seven people, although only six of them are now with Infosys. Ashok Arora, the seventh founder, quit Infosys in 1989 before the company went public as it was going through tough times. Arora later moved to the United States to work with a consulting firm. The six other original founders are N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal and K Dinesh. Sharad Hegde was Infosys' first non-founder employee. Like Murthy and Nilekani, he too was a former Patni employee and Infosys' tech-guru in its early years. He left Infosys a few years ago and is planning to set up a golf resort near Bangalore. His wife, Anu, who left the company in the early 1990s, was an expert in quality and processes. The two met in Infosys and were Infosys' first 'office romance,'.
Infosys Technologies is one Indian company that has changed the way the world looks at India. It is an emblem of India's supremacy in information technology. But how much do you know about India's favourite companyInfosys wasn't N R Narayana Murthy's first entrepreneurial venture. It was actually a company named Softronics, which Murthy founded in 1976 in Pune. It was an IT consulting firm. He shut it after a while and took up a job at Patni Computer Services as the head of its software business.Narayana Murthy was born on August 29, 1946. One of the eight children born to a physics teacher in southern India, he hailed from an average middle-class family. He studied electrical engineering and obtained a master's degree in 1969. After his studies, he worked in the computer department of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His first real job overseas was in 1971 when he took up employment with SESA in Paris. He worked with a team to design a real time operating system for handling air cargo for the Charles de Gaulle airport. In 1974, at the age of 26, confident that he had gained a lot of insight into the world around him, he decided to return to India.Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan, or NSR, was employee Number One at Infosys. The oldest amongst the founders, a passable singer and a great cook, NSR was the first person Narayana Murthy spoke to about founding Infosys. Infosys was born with NSR's house in Matunga as its registered office. NSR, now retired, continues to be a Trustee of the Infosys Foundation. Murthy himself was employee Number Four. Today Infosys has over 53,000 employees. Infosys was originally founded by seven people, although only six of them are now with Infosys. Ashok Arora, the seventh founder, quit Infosys in 1989 before the company went public as it was going through tough times. Arora later moved to the United States to work with a consulting firm. The six other original founders are N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal and K Dinesh. Sharad Hegde was Infosys' first non-founder employee. Like Murthy and Nilekani, he too was a former Patni employee and Infosys' tech-guru in its early years. He left Infosys a few years ago and is planning to set up a golf resort near Bangalore. His wife, Anu, who left the company in the early 1990s, was an expert in quality and processes. The two met in Infosys and were Infosys' first 'office romance,'.
