Mr. Murthy is a globally-respected entrepreneur and founder of Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY). He founded Infosys in 1981. Infosys is, today, a highly-innovative software services global company listed on NYSE in the US and on the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai with US$ 14 billion in revenue and about US$ 95 billion in market capitalization.

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.