Business Personality

2. Intro
 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
 Currently serving as the Nandan Nilekani
Chairman of the new Unique
Identification Authority of
India (UIDAI)

3. Personal life
 Birth : June 2, 1955 in Sirsi town, Karnataka
 Father-Mohan Rao Nilekani(General Manager of Mysore and Minerva
Mills)
 Mother- Durga
 Brother- Vijay(Nuclear Energy Institute)
Studies
 B.Tech in Electrical engineering from IIT Mumbai in 1978

4. Family
 Married to Rohini, - met at IIT quizzing event
 Two children Nihar and Jahnavi, both studying at Yale
University

5. Career
 Joined Patni Computers and worked under Narayan Murthy.
 In 1981, Nandan Nilekani 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)

6. 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.”

7. Honors and awards
 2009- 'Legend in Leadership Award' by the Yale University. He is the first
Indian to receive the top honor.
 2007- Forbes “Businessman of the Year” for Asia
 2006- „Padma Bhushan Award‟ by the Government of India
 2005- Joseph Schumpeter Prize for innovative services in economy,
economic sciences and politics
 2004- Corporate Citizen of the Year award at the Asia Business Leader
Awards organized by CNBC.

8. Book
-Imagining India-
 Deals with the idea of re-building India
as an economic power

9. 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