Kris Gopalakrishnan

Kris studied in a government school, named Model School in Thycaud, Trivandrum. He had particular interest in the science subject, and wished to pursue higher education in engineering.

Subsequently, Kris was called upon by Narendra Patni, the founder of Patni Computer Systems, to work with him. He worked at the post of a Software Engineer in 1979 and rose to the position of Assistant Project Manager in 1981. The experience he gained by working for PCS brought him to Infosys. In 1981, Gopalkrishnan co-founded Infosys Technologies Limited with six people, including N.R Narayan Murthy. Initially, he handled design management, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US.

Mr. Gopalakrishnan served as a Deputy Managing Director and Head of Client Delivery and Technology of Infosys Technologies Ltd. from 1999 to 2002. He was a Partner of Price waterhouse Coopers LLP until January 2009. Co-Chairman since June 2011, Gopalakrishnan serves as Head of the Executive Council at Infosys Technologies Ltd, along with Vice President of Confederation of Indian Industry. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited from June 22, 2007 to June 2011.

INFOSYSInfosys Limited (formerly Infosys Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems.

Infosys is the second-largest India-based IT services company by 2014 revenues, and the fifth largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States in FY 2013. On 15 February 2015, its market capitalisation was ₹ 263,735 crores ($42.51 billion), making it India's sixth largest publicly traded company.

Change in name: The company changed its name to "Infosys Technologies Private Limited" in April 1992 and to "Infosys Technologies Limited" when it became a public limited company in June 1992

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

• Vice Chairmanship of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka.

• He is also the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council.

• Member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

• He was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan, in 2015

• He works out a salary of $100,000 USD from Infosys