Additional information on directors recommended for re-appointment

S. Gopalakrishnan

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

S. Gopalakrishnan is one of the co-founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the Company's strategy through using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.

On June 22, 2007, Gopalakrishnan took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.

His initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA / Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, he returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the Company.

Gopalakrishnan is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. He is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

He holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which S. Gopalakrishnan holds directorship and committee memberships

Shareholding in the Company

S. Gopalakrishnan holds 66,56,726 equity shares of the Company.

S. D. Shibulal

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

S. D. Shibulal is one of the co-founders and a member of the Board of Directors of Infosys Technologies Limited. He has over three decades of IT leadership experience. He has played a pivotal role in the Infosys journey and a significant role in the evolution of the GDM which is now the de-facto industry standard for delivery of outsourced IT services.

Shibulal started his Infosys journey in 1981 by first spearheading its project management, followed by client relationships in North American region for a decade. He followed this with a five-year sabbatical with Sun Microsystems between 1991 and 1996, where he was responsible for designing and implementing their first e-commerce application among other significant contributions.
In 1997, on his return to Infosys, he established and headed the Internet Consultancy practice. He moved on to serve several leadership roles at the group level, firstly as the Worldwide Head of Customer Delivery and later as Group Head, Worldwide Sales and Customer Delivery. Over the years, he has been known to foster innovation, leadership, teamwork and work ethics within the organization.

On June 22, 2007, he took over from S. Gopalakrishnan as Chief Operating Officer and has been serving this role since. His focus has been on increasing competitiveness, improving customer experience, improving employee engagement and further increasing the depth of services.

Shibulal received a master's degree in Physics from the University of Kerala and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Boston. He is a member of several international forums, namely, the International Board of Foundation, Globethics.net; the global Corporate Governance Forum's Private Sector Advisory Group and the Metropolitan College Dean's advisory Board, Boston University.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which S. D. Shibulal holds directorship and committee memberships

Shareholding in the Company

S. D. Shibulal holds 24,69,711 equity shares of the Company.