Mr. Murthy is a globally-respected entrepreneur and founder of Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) and Catamaran. He founded Infosys in 1981, which today is India’s second largest IT services company, with ~US$ 20 billion in revenue, net profit of ~$3 bn and employs more than 3 lakh people. Infosys is listed on the NYSE in the US and on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange in India.

In 2014, Mr. Murthy was ranked 13th among CNBC’s 25 global business leaders and was listed among the ‘12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time’ by Fortune magazine in 2012. He received the Legion d’honneur from France, CBE from Britain and Padma Vibhushan from India. The Economist ranked him among the 10 most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He is the first Indian winner of Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Currently, Mr. Murthy serves on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey and the United Nations Foundation. He has served on the boards of Ford Foundation in New York, HSBC and Unilever in London.