Additional information on directors recommended for re-appointment


N. R. Narayana Murthy

Srinath Batni

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

Srinath Batni was inducted as a member of the Board of Directors of Infosys in May 2000. He is responsible for Delivery Excellence at Infosys.

Srinath is also a Director on the Board of Infosys Technologies (China) Company Limited, Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Company Limited and Infosys (Australia) Pty. Limited.

Srinath joined Infosys in June 1992 as Project Manager and since held several management positions. Before joining Infosys, he worked as a Project Manager for the Indian subsidiary of a leading French company (since 1990). Prior to that, he was responsible for implementing production management and materials management systems at one of India’s leading public sector heavy engineering and manufacturing companies (since 1980).

Srinath received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mysore University in 1975 and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1979.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which Srinath Batni holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

Infosys Technologies (China) Company Limited

Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Company Limited

Infosys Technologies (Australia) Pty. Limited

None

Member of Board committees

None

Shareholding in the Company

Srinath Batni holds 5,89,847 equity shares of the Company.

 

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Sridar A. Iyengar

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

Sridar A. Iyengar is an independent mentor investor in early stage entrepreneurs and companies. For more than 35 years, he has worked in the U.K., U.S. and India with a large number of companies at all stages such as growth and globalization. He has been advising them on strategic issues.

Sridar A. Iyengar is the President of the Foundation for Democratic Reforms in India, a US-based non-profit organization. He is also an advisor to several venture and private equity funds.

He was previously a senior partner with KPMG in the U.S. and U.K. and served for three years as Chairman and CEO of KPMG’s operations in India.

Sridar A. Iyengar has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Calcutta and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which Sridar A. Iyengar holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

Infosys BPO Limited

ICICI Bank Limited

Rediff.com India Limited

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Limited

OnMobile Global Limited

CL Educate Limited

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited

Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited

AverQ Inc.

Kovair Software Inc.

Rediff Holdings Inc.

American India Foundation Inc.

Cleartrip Inc.

ICICI Bank Limited

Audit Committee

Rediff.com India Limited

Audit Committee

CL Educate Limited

Audit committee

Member of Board committees

Infosys BPO Limited

Audit committee

Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Limited

Audit Committee

Shareholding in the Company

Sridar A. Iyengar does not hold any shares of the Company.

 

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Deepak M. Satwalekar

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

Deepak M. Satwalekar was the Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited between 2000 and 2008. Before that, he served as the Managing Director of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) since 1993. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT).

Deepak is a recipient of the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is on the Advisory Council of IIT, Bombay and has been a member and chairman of several expert groups related to industry, government and the Reserve Bank of India.

Deepak obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT, Bombay and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the American University, Washington DC.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which Deepak M. Satwalekar holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

Franklin Templeton Asset Management India Private Limited

Asian Paints (India) Limited

Piramal Healthcare Limited

Germinait Solutions Private Limited

The Tata Power Company Limited

IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited

National Stock Exchange of India Limited

Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Piramal Healthcare Limited

Investor Grievance Committee

Member of Board committees

The Tata Power Company Limited

Audit Committee

Shareholding in the Company

Deepak Satwalekar holds 56,000 equity shares of the Company.

 

Dr. Omkar Goswami

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

Dr. Omkar Goswami is the Founder and Chairman of CERG Advisory Private Limited (CERG is the acronym for the Corporate and Economic Research Group).

A professional economist, Dr. Goswami completed his Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 1978 and his D. Phil (Ph.D) from Oxford in 1982. He taught and conducted research for 18 years at Oxford, Delhi School of Economics, Harvard, Tufts, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Rutgers University and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.

In March 1997 he moved away from formal academics to become the editor of Business India, one of the country’s most prestigious business magazines. From August 1998 to March 2004, Dr. Goswami served as the Chief Economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry – India’s premier apex industry organization.

Dr. Goswami has served on several government committees. He was the chairman of the Committee on Industrial Sickness and Corporate Restructuring in 1993, which recommended the revamping of India’s bankruptcy laws and procedures; member of the Working Group on the Companies Act; the CII Committee on Corporate Governance; the Rakesh Mohan Committee on Railway Infrastructure Reform; the Vijay Kelkar Committee on Direct Tax Reforms; the Naresh Chandra Committee on Auditor-Company Relationship; the N. R. Narayana Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance instituted by SEBI, among others.

Dr. Goswami has been a consultant to the World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and the OECD.

Other than his regular columns for newspapers and magazines, Dr. Goswami has authored three books and over 70 research papers on economic history, industrial economics, public sector, bankruptcy laws and procedures, economic policy, corporate finance, corporate governance, public finance, tax enforcement and legal reforms.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which Dr. Omkar Goswami holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

CERG Advisory Private Limited

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited

Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited

Crompton Greaves Limited

DSP BlackRock Investment Managers Private Limited

Ambuja Cements Limited

Cairn India Limited

Godrej Consumer Products Limited

Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited

Avantha Power and Infrastructure Limited

Max India Limited

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited

Audit Committee

Cairn India Limited

Investor Grievance Committee

Crompton Greaves Limited

Audit Committee

Member of Board committees

Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited

Audit Committee

Investor Grievance Committee

Cairn India Limited

Audit Committee

Godrej Consumer Products Limited

Audit Committee

Shareholding in the Company

Dr. Omkar Goswami holds 12,300 equity shares of the Company.

 

R. Seshasayee

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

A Chartered Accountant by profession, R. Seshasayee started his career with Hindustan Lever Limited in 1971. Currently, he is the Executive Vice Chairman of Ashok Leyland Limited. Seshasayee was the Managing Director of Ashok Leyland from April 1998 to March 2011.

As the Managing Director, Seshasayee spearheaded the drive for growth and development of Ashok Leyland. The company registered a turnover of US$ 1.61 billion in 2009-2010 and has one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle segment. Under Seshasayee’s leadership, Ashok Leyland has maintained its unbroken track record of profitability, and expanded its global footprint. He has been the Chairman of IndusInd Bank since July 2007. On the National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for over twenty years, he was the National President of CII from 2006-2007. He was the President of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, the apex body representing the automobile industry of India from 2001-2003.

Seshasayee has served on several government committees, including the J. J. Irani Committee on Company Law. He is a member of the Board of Trade, an advisory body on policies relating to trade and commerce. He was also a member of the government delegation to the Doha Ministerial Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 and the Hong Kong Ministerial in 2005.

Seshasayee has been part of several professional committees such as the Accounting Standards Board and the Research Committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Seshasayee was also a director on the Boards of various companies, including ICICI Bank. He is also associated with several charitable, educational, cultural and social welfare organizations, including the Indian Cancer Institute.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which R. Seshasayee holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

Ashok Leyland Limited

Ashley Airways Limited

Ashley Alteams India Limited

Hinduja Foundries Limited

IndusInd Bank Limited

Hinduja Automotive Limited, U.K.

Ashok Leyland Nissan Vehicles Limited

Hinduja Group India Limited

Hinduja Leyland Finance Limited

Hinduja National Power Corporation Limited

Irizar TVS Limited

Nissan Ashok Leyland Technologies Limited

Nissan Ashok Leyland Powertrain Limited

Optare plc., U.K.

Ashok Leyland Defense Systems Limited

None

Member of Board committees

Ashok Leyland Limited

Investors Grievance Committee

Hinduja Foundries Limited

Investors Grievance Committee

Shareholding in the Company

R. Seshasayee does not hold any equity shares of the Company.

 

Ravi Venkatesan

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

Ravi Venkatesan was the Chairman of Microsoft India and was responsible for Microsoft’s marketing, operational and business development efforts in the country.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Ravi Venkatesan worked for over seventeen years with Cummins Inc., a US-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of engines and related technologies. He served in various leadership capacities at Cummins including Chairman of Cummins India Limited and Managing Director of Tata Cummins Limited, a joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors. His biggest contribution at Cummins was leading the transformation of Cummins in India into a major provider of power solutions and the largest manufacturer of automotive engines in the country.

Ravi Venkatesan has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1985), an MS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University (1986) and a MBA from Harvard University (1992) where he was a Baker Scholar. Ravi Venkatesan was awarded Purdue University’s Outstanding Industrial Engineer award for the year 2000 and the Distinguished Alumnus award by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2003.

Ravi Venkatesan is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was a Director on the Board of Thermax Ltd. and a member of the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and IIIT, Bangalore. He has contributed frequently to the Harvard Business Review and some of his articles include Strategic Sourcing – to Make or Not to Make and The Strategy that Wouldn’t Travel.

Companies (other than Infosys) in which Ravi Venkatesan holds directorship and committee memberships

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

None

None

Member of Board committees

None

Shareholding in the Company

Ravi Venkatesan holds 110 equity shares of the Company.

 

S. Gopalakrishnan

Profile and expertise in specific functional areas

S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. In 1981, Kris, along with N. R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited. His initial responsibilities included the 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, Kris headed the technical operations of KSA / Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA in Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Infosys.

On June 22, 2007, Kris was appointed the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys. Kris previously served as the Chief Operating Officer (April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments, and acquisitions.

Kris is recognized as a global thought leader. He was selected in Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers compiled by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, in association with the IE Business School, Madrid, and the London Business School’s Management Innovation Lab.

Kris is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Southern Regional Council and serves on the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. Kris is also the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Karnataka Government. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

In January 2011, Kris was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor, by the Government of India.

Kris holds Master’s degrees in Physics (1977) and Computer Science (1979) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

None

None

Member of Board committees

None

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 (Shibu) is one of the co-founders and a member of the Board of Directors of Infosys Technologies Limited. Shibu has over three decades of IT leadership experience. He has played a pivotal role in the Infosys journey and a seminal role in the evolution of the Global Delivery Model which is now the de-facto industry standard for delivery of outsourced IT services.

Shibu started his Infosys journey in 1981 by first spearheading its project management, and then handling client relationships in the 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 amongst other creditable contributions. In 1997, on his return to Infosys, Shibu 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, Shibu has been known to foster innovation, leadership, teamwork and work values within the organization.

On June 22, 2007, Shibu 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 increasing the depth of services.

Shibu 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, such as the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), the International Board of Foundation, Globethics.net, the Global Corporate Governance Forum’s Private Sector Advisory Group, the International Advisory Board, Boston University and the Metropolitan College Dean’s Advisory Board, Boston University.

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

Directorships

Chairperson of Board committees

Infosys BPO Limited

Infosys Consulting, Inc.

Infosys Technologies (China) Company Limited

Infosys Technologies (Sweden) AB

Infosys Consulting India Limited

Infosys Public Services Inc.

Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Company Limited

None

Member of Board committees

Infosys BPO Limited

Audit Committee

Shareholding in the Company

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

 

Attendance record of the directors seeking appointment / re-appointment

Directors

Number of meetings

held

attended

Srinath Batni

5

5

Sridar A. Iyengar

5

5

Deepak M. Satwalekar

5

5

Dr. Omkar Goswami

5

5

R. Seshasayee

1

1

Ravi Venkatesan

S. Gopalakrishnan

5

5

S. D. Shibulal

5

5

Disclosure in terms of Clause 49 (IV) (G) (ia) of the Listing Agreement

There are no inter-se relationships between the Board members.