This presentation is on Nandan Nilekani.

1. NANDANNILEKANI
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3. INTRODUCTION
 Bill Gates of Bangalore.
 Slogan Inspiration - “The World is flat”.
 The co-founder of Infosys along with Narayan Murthy.
 CEO and Managing Director of the Infosys.
 Served as the Chairman of the new Unique
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
 He is the president of the governing body of National
Council of Applied Economic Research(NCAER).
 He is also a member of the board of governors of the
Indian Council for Research on International Economic
Relations (ICRIER).

4. PERSONAL LIFE (1/2)
 Birth : June 2, 1955 in Sirsi town, Karnataka.
 Father-Mohan Rao Nilekani (General Manager of
Mysore and Minerva Mills).
 Mother- Durga Nilekani.
 Brother- Vijay Nilekani.(Nuclear Energy Institute).
 STUDIES:
 B.Tech in Electrical engineering from IIT Mumbai in
1978.

5. PERSONAL LIFE (2/2)
 Married to Rohini, - met at IIT quizzing event
 Two children Nihar and Jahnavi, both studying at Yale
University.

6. CAREER
 Joined Patni Computers and worked under Narayan
Murthy.
 In 1981, He along with Narayan Murthy and five other
co-founders founded Infosys.
 Shifted to US to take care of Infosys' interests there.
 CEO and MD of Infosys from March 2002 to April 2007
 Left Infosys on 9 July 2009 to serve as the chairperson
of the UIDAI, in the rank of a cabinet minister under
invitation from the Prime Minister of India, Dr.
Manmohan Singh
 He co-founded India’s National Association of Software
and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

7. LAST DAY AT INFOSYS
 “I am generally very articulate but this is not the day or
place where I can be articulate. I've been wrapped up in
Infosys for 28 years. My only identity is Infosys. I will
be going to lead a programme to give identity to every
Indian. But today I am losing my identity… But, in my
new role, I'm supposed to work with 600 government
departments knowing fully well that no two government
departments get along with one other.”

8. HONOURS & REWARS (1/2)
 2011: Received NDTV's
Transformational Idea of the Year award
for his work on Aadhaar.
 2010: Listed as one of the Top 100
Global Thinkers in 2010 by the Foreign
Policy magazine.
 2009: His book 'Imagining India' was
one of the finalists for the FT-Goldman
Sachs Book Award.
 2009: On Time Magazine's list of the
World's 100 Most Influential People.

9. HONOURS & REWARS (2/2)
 2006: On Time Magazine's list of the World's 100 Most
Influential People.
 2006: Awarded one of India's highest civilian honours,
the Padma Bhushan.
 2006: Named Businessman of the Year by Forbes Asia.
 2005: Won the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter Prize for
innovative services in economy, economic sciences and
politics.
 2004: Named Corporate Citizen of the Year at the Asia
Business Leaders Award organized by CNBC.

10. UNIQUENESS
 From Flat World to Imagining Unique India : Gave
identity to every Indian.
 Values like doing things on time, on budget, and using
high quality people.
 Full of ideas & a very good communicator.

11. THANK YOU….