Alma mater IIT, Madras Net worth 1.8 billion USD (2015) Spouse Sudha Gopalakrishnan | Name Kris Gopalakrishnan Years active 1981 – present | |
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Occupation Executive Vice Chairman, Infosys Education Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Indian Institutes of Technology Similar People S D Shibulal, N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, Vishal Sikka | ||
Kris gopalakrishnan on indian startups entrepreneurship lessons
Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan, is the executive vice chairman (former co-chairman) of Infosys, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. He is also one of its seven founders. He was elected as the President of India's apex industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2013-14.
Contents
- Kris gopalakrishnan on indian startups entrepreneurship lessons
- Interview with kris gopalakrishnan ceo infosys india
- Early days
- Infosys
- Other work
- Positions
- Awards
- Philanthropy
- References
Interview with kris gopalakrishnan ceo infosys india
Early days
Kris Gopalakrishnan was born in Thiruvanathapuram on April 5, 1955. He spent his school days in Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thycaud, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala.
Kris obtained an M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career as a software engineer with Patni Computers, Mumbai in 1979.
Infosys
In 1981, Gopalakrishnan co-founded Infosys with six other entrepreneurs. His initial years at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the U.S. consumer products industry. From 1987 to 1994, Gopalakrishnan headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA in Atlanta, Georgia).
In 2007, Kris took over as CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited from Nandan Nilekani. During his 4-year tenure, Infosys' topline doubled to $6 billion. 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. In August 2011, he handed over the responsibility of CEO and MD to his colleague and another co-founder of Infosys, S D Shibulal. He was later appointed Executive Vice-Chairman of Infosys Board. He served as Non-executive Vice Chairman of Infosys Board from June 14 till October 10, 2014.
Other work
In 2014 Gopalakrishnan co-founded Axilor Ventures, a venture capital platform for young entrepreneurs. On March 8, 2016 Gopalakrishnan launched the 5th edition of IBETO hosted every year by Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi.
He was also a keynote speaker at Consilience 2013, organised by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru on Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing.
Positions
Awards
Civilian awards: In 2011, Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan which is India's third highest civilian honor.
Philanthropy
Kris has contributed Rs. 225 Crore (40 Million USD) to the Pure Sciences to develop a Centre for Brain Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He is also one of the single-largest donor to the 105-year-old institute ever received from an individual.