Kris Gopalakrishnan
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| Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan | |
| Born | 1956 Trivandrum, India |
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| Occupation | President & Chief Executive Officer of Infosys |
| Salary | $100,000 USD (Infosys)[1] |
| Net worth | ▲ $1.2 billion USD (2007)[2] |
Kris Gopalakrishnan is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.
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[edit] Early days
Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a Software Engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an Assistant Project Manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling the LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant.
[edit] Career at Infosys
In 1981, Kris, along with N. R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited. The initial years of his responsibility at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. During 1987-1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical).
On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan Nilekani as the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions.
Recently, he was fined Rs 5 lakh by the Infosys board for a technical violation of its insider trading rules. He is alleged to have inherited 12,800 equity shares from his mother on December 24, 2007 but had inadvertently failed to notify the company within one business day after the change in his shareholding, which constituted a violation of the company's insider trading rules. The fine money has been donated to a charitable organization.
[edit] References
- ^ Infosys' new CEO faces tough road, fewer books, Reuters.com
- ^ The World's Billionaires, Forbes.com
