He is also a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yale University and the University of Tokyo’s President's Council.
He is the chairman of the governing body of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and the IIM, Ahmedabad .
Who are we talking about ???
Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited
N.R.Narayana Murthy
Profile
Breaking from conventional wisdom is an art that the independent minded Murthy honed early in life.
Belonged to a Middle Class family in Mysore.
His father wanted him to join civil services.
Topped his school exams.
Dreamed of studying at IIT.
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Passed the IIT entrance test & also got a scholarship.
His father had a modest salary of Rs 250/- & could not afford to keep aside Rs 100/- every month for his son’s education.
So Narayana Murthy enrolled at a local engineering college at Mysore.
He passed his engineering as a top ranking graduate in electrical engineering and also got scholarship to do his M. Tech from IIT, Kanpur.
Profile
At IIT Murthy was introduced to the ‘wonder machine’.
He got trained in computer sciences, a new subject at that time.
Many better paying job offers like Air India, HMT, ECIL, Telco came his way, but he refused and instead joined as a Chief Systems Programmer at IIM, Ahmedabad earning Rs 800 a month.
At IIM he met J.G.Krishnayya, who was the Professor of Information Systems.
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At IIM, Narayana Murthy was responsible for installing and designing a time-sharing operating system.
Krishnayya recommended Murthy's name to Sesa, a French software company that was looking to hire programmers for a special project - building up an operating system for handling air cargo at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
Murthy successfully completed that project & came back to Pune & joined SRI, started by Krishnayya.
Profile
It was in Pune, that he met his wife to be Sudha Kulkarni, also an electrical engineer who was working with Telco.
They married in 1978, by which time Murthy had left SRI and joined PCS as its head of software.
In PCS he recruited, those six professionals who were to eventually partner him in his first experiment of creating wealth.
He is the chairman of the governing body of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and the IIM, Ahmedabad .
Who are we talking about ???
Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited
N.R.Narayana Murthy
Profile
Breaking from conventional wisdom is an art that the independent minded Murthy honed early in life.
Belonged to a Middle Class family in Mysore.
His father wanted him to join civil services.
Topped his school exams.
Dreamed of studying at IIT.
Profile
Passed the IIT entrance test & also got a scholarship.
His father had a modest salary of Rs 250/- & could not afford to keep aside Rs 100/- every month for his son’s education.
So Narayana Murthy enrolled at a local engineering college at Mysore.
He passed his engineering as a top ranking graduate in electrical engineering and also got scholarship to do his M. Tech from IIT, Kanpur.
Profile
At IIT Murthy was introduced to the ‘wonder machine’.
He got trained in computer sciences, a new subject at that time.
Many better paying job offers like Air India, HMT, ECIL, Telco came his way, but he refused and instead joined as a Chief Systems Programmer at IIM, Ahmedabad earning Rs 800 a month.
At IIM he met J.G.Krishnayya, who was the Professor of Information Systems.
Profile
At IIM, Narayana Murthy was responsible for installing and designing a time-sharing operating system.
Krishnayya recommended Murthy's name to Sesa, a French software company that was looking to hire programmers for a special project - building up an operating system for handling air cargo at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
Murthy successfully completed that project & came back to Pune & joined SRI, started by Krishnayya.
Profile
It was in Pune, that he met his wife to be Sudha Kulkarni, also an electrical engineer who was working with Telco.
They married in 1978, by which time Murthy had left SRI and joined PCS as its head of software.
In PCS he recruited, those six professionals who were to eventually partner him in his first experiment of creating wealth.