Narayana Murthy Comes Out Of Retirement To Lead Infosys Again; Son To Assist Father
Who is Rohan Murthy?
In order to function more effectively, Murthy intends to create the Chairman's office to assist him during his tenure and has requested the Board to permit him to put together a team for this function. The team will include his son, Dr Rohan Murty, as his executive assistant.
Rohan Murty is a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Cornell University and has held fellowships at MIT, Caltech, and Microsoft Research.
Rohan has authored several papers and has patents as part of his research on wireless and mobile computing.
Kamath indicated on Saturday that Infosys decided to bring Murthy back as stakeholders wanted it, in addition to the 'external and internal environment'.
Asked for the circumstances under which invitation was extended to Murthy to come in as Executive Chairman, Kamath cited 'external and internal environment' without elaborating and what 'stakeholders are telling us, communicating to us'. Most importanly, he said, the company has to care to what stakeholders were telling it in a variety of ways. So, it was a response to stakeholders "as it were". "All these were considered in that invitation", Kamath said.
"... the Board has kept in mind clearly the fact that this industry is going through challenges and the Board has also kept in mind that the company has certain challenges", he said.
Murthy, along with six fellow software engineers, established Infosys with about USD 250 in 1981. In the last 30 years, they have made it one of the most respected names in the software outsourcing sector.
Meanwhile, reacting to Narayan Murthy's re-appointment, Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw tweeted: "NRN, I am confident, will restore Infosys to its original glory but he must be given reasonable time to reboot the business."
