Additional information on directors recommended for re-appointment
N. R. Narayana MurthyProfile and expertise in specific functional areasN. R. Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. Narayana Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model (GDM) which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He serves on the boards of Unilever, HSBC, Ford Foundation and the UN Foundation. He also serves on the boards of Cornell University, Wharton School, Singapore Management University, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management Technology, Bangalore and INSEAD. The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India's most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years – 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Légion d'honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the British government. He is the first Indian winner of Ernst and Young's World Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Max Schmidheiny Liberty prize, and has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators published by India Today, Business Standard, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Time, CNN, Fortune and Financial Times. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Narayana Murthy received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Mysore University and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Companies (other than Infosys) in which N. R. Narayana Murthy holds directorship and committee memberships
Shareholding in the CompanyN. R. Narayana Murthy holds 23,79,672 equity shares of the Company. |
Prof. Marti G. SubrahmanyamProfile and expertise in specific functional areasMarti G. Subrahmanyam has served as one of the directors on our Board since April 1998. Prof. Subrahmanyam is the Lead Independent Director on our Board. Prof. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, Economics and International Business in the Stern School of Business at New York University. Prof. Subrahmanyam has published numerous articles and books in the areas of corporate finance, capital markets and international finance. He has been a visiting professor at leading academic institutions around the world, including, most recently, the University of Melbourne, LUISS Guido Carli and Singapore Management University. He has served and continues to serve on the editorial boards of many academic journals and was the founding editor of the Review of Derivatives Research. Prof. Subrahmanyam has won many teaching awards, including New York University's Distinguished Teaching Medal. He has served and continues to serve as a consultant to several corporations, industrial groups and financial institutions around the world. Prof. Subrahmanyam serves as an advisor to several international and government organizations. Prof. Subrahmanyam also serves as a director on the boards of ICICI Bank Limited, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited, and Nomura Asset Management (USA.) Inc Prof. Subrahmanyam received a Mechanical Engineering degree from IIT, Madras, a post-graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Ph.D in Finance and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Companies (other than Infosys) in which Prof. Marti G. Subrahmanyam holds directorship and committee memberships
Shareholding in the CompanyProf. Marti G. Subrahmanyam holds 17,500 American Depositary Shares of the Company. |