Narayana Murthy is the founder of Infosys Technologies, one of India's largest IT consulting and services companies. The document provides biographical details about Murthy's early life, education, founding of Infosys, and his role and achievements there over several decades. It also discusses Murthy's strategy of global delivery and moving Infosys up the value chain. The document notes some similarities between Murthy and Steve Jobs, including that they were both engineers who founded major tech companies in the 1980s and designed innovative business models. It highlights that Murthy and Jobs both served lengthy terms as CEO before resigning in August of the same year.

1. N. R. NARAYANA
MURTHY

2. CONTENTS
Profile
Brief Introduction
Early life
Personal life
About Infosys
Corporate profile
Murthy global strategy

3. PROFILE

4. BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Software engineer & the founder of Infosys Technologies.
Consulting and IT services company based in India.
He is currently the non-executive Chairman of Infosys.
He was the CEO of the company for 21 years (1981 - 2002).

5. BRIEF INTRODUCTION
After
stepping
down as
CEO in
2002.
He has
broadened
his scope
of activities.
To social
services as
well as
promoting
India
globally.
His
estimated
net worth is
$1.4 billion
as of 2012.
In 2009, his lectures
delivered around the
world have been
published as a book
“A Better India:
A Better World”

6. EARLY LIFE
Graduated in electrical engineering from NIE in
1967.
Received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur in
1969.
His 1st position was at IIM-A as chief systems
programmer.
He worked on a time-sharing system.
Designed and implemented a “BASIC” interpreter
for ECIL (Electronics Corporation of India Limited).

7. EARLY LIFE
After IIM-A he then joined Patni Computer Systems in
Pune.
Murthy met his wife Sudha Murthy in Pune.
An engineer working at Tata Engg. and Locomotive Co.
Ltd.
In 1981, with an investment of Rs.10,000 he founded
Infosys.
He served as the president of the National Association
of Software and Service Companies (1992 to 1994).

8. PERSONAL LIFE
Sudha Murthy
Kulkarni, is
an Indian
social worker.
Accomplished
author.
She is known
for her
philanthropic
work through
the Infosys
Foundation.
Her sister,
Jayashree
Despande is
wife of
entrepreneur.
They have
two children -
Rohan and
Akshata.

9. CORPORATE PROFILE
Murthy served as the founder CEO of Infosys for 21 years.
At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model
which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services
outsourcing from India.
Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank of
Singapore.
He also serves as a director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of
India.

10. CORPORATE PROFILE
He is also an Independent Director on the board of HSBC.
He also serves on the boards of the Ford Foundation and UN
Foundation.
He is the chairman of the governing body of the International Institute
of Information Technology – Bangalore.
Chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmadabad.

11. CORPORATE PROFILE
Murthy retired from his executive position at Infosys on 20 August 2006.
However, he continues as the Non-Executive Chairman of the board.
Murthy started a new venture capital fund called Catamaran Venture Fund with
the money he got by selling 800,000 Infosys shares worth 174Crores.

12. ABOUT INFOSYS
1981,
Narayana
Murthy
founded
Infosys.
In 1987,
Infosys
opened its
first
international
office in
U.S.A.
With the
liberalization
of Indian
economy in
1990s,
Infosys grew
rapidly.
In 1993, the
company
came up with
its IPO.
In 1995,
Infosys set
up
development
centres
across cities
in India and
in 1996.

13. ABOUT INFOSYS
It set up its
first office
in Europe
in Milton
Keynes,
UK.
In 1999,
Infosys
became the
first Indian
company to
be listed on
NASDAQ.
In 2006,
Infosys has
a turnover
of more
than $
2billion.
Employee
strength of
over
50,000.
In 2002,
Infosys was
ranked No.
1 in the
"Best
Employers
in India
2002"
survey
conducted
by Hewitt.

14. MURTHY GLOBAL STRATEGY
Global delivery model:
Producing where it is
most cost effective to
produce & selling where
it is most profitable to
sell.
Moving up the value
chain:
Getting involved in a
software development
project at the earliest
stage of its life cycle.
PSPD model:
Predictability of
revenues, sustainability
of revenues, profitability,
derisking.

15. Reason
for
success
Invest in well
understood,
proven
products &
not just R&D.
Given
stakeholders
bad news
proactively &
early.
Speed,
imagination
& excellence.
Leaders in
the making.
Respect for
the
competition.

16. AWARDS
Hoover Medal
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Indian of the Year's Icon of India
• NDTV
IEEE Honorary Membership
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Padma Shri
• Government of India
Padma Vibhushan
• Government of India
Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Government of France
Order of the British Empire
• Government of United Kingdom

17. ACHIVEMENTS
Voted as the managed company on India.
Biggest exporters of software.
First to follow the US generally accepted accounting
principles before going for Nasdaq listing in 1991.
Championed corporate governance in India.

18. Common facts
Between Steve and Murthy

19. Names like Narayana Murthy and Steve Jobs are not new to you. These are few of the
people who have given a rational definition to the world of Information technology. They
have shown that "thinking big" is what every leader should do. Naryana Murthy
represented Infosys on the global map and Steve Jobs for Apple. They now stand as the
youth icons this is one of the common things that they share.

20. Lets us find out more of the
common or similar things that
they share.

21. 1. Engineers
Both Narayana Murthy and
Steve Jobs are basically
engineers.
Murthy graduated with a degree
in electrical engineering from the
National Institute of Engineering,
University of Mysore in 1967
after attending government
school. He received his master's
degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969.

22. Jobs attended Cupertino
Junior High School and
Homestead High School in
Cupertino, California, and
frequented after-school
lectures at the Hewlett-
Packard Company .
He was soon hired there and
worked with Steve Wozniak as
a summer
1. Engineers

23. 2. Career
Both the tech gurus
made their debut in
1980's. Along with six
other engineers, Murthy
co-founded Infosys in
1981 in Pune with an
initial capital of 10,000
rupees, which was
borrowed from his wife
Sudha Murthy.

24. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike
Markkula, and others, designed,
developed, and marketed one of the
first commercially successful lines of
personal computers. In the early
1980s, Jobs was among the first to
see the commercial potential of
Xerox PARC's mouse-driven
graphical user interface, which led to
the creation of the Macintosh
2. Career

25. 3.Designers
Narayan Murthy
articulated, designed
and implemented the
Global Delivery Model
which has become the
foundation for the huge
success in IT services
outsourcing from India.

26. Steve Jobs designed, developed, and
marketed one of the first commercially
successful lines of personal computers,
the Apple II series with the help of his
other members.
3.Designers

27. CEO
CEOs: Both Narayan Murthy and
Steve Jobs served as the CEOs of
their respective companies and
later resigned at their own wish.
Murthy served as the CEO of Infosys
for 21 years and was succeeded by
co-founder Nandan Nilekani in
2002.

28. After losing a power struggle with the
board of directors in 1985, Jobs
resigned from Apple and founded
NeXT, a computer platform
development company specializing in
the higher-education and business
markets. Apple's subsequent 1996
buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to
the company he co-founded, and he
served as its CEO from 1997 until
2011.
CEO

29. RESIGNATION
What was the most common
between the giants was their
resignation. They resigned in
the same month of the same
year with a difference of four
days. N R Narayana Murthy
stepped down as Chairman of
Infosys on Aug 19 just a day
before his 65 birthday bringing
the curtains down on his 30-
years of illustrious innings.

30. Steve Jobs resigned as Chief
Executive Officer of Apple on Aug
24 naming Tim Cook as the next
CEO of Apple.
RESIGNATION

31. Thank You