Kris Gopalakrishnan

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 (CII)' for the year 2013-14.

Career at 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. 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 would serve as Non-executive Vice Chairman of Infosys Board from June 14 till October 10, 2014.

Positions

• Kris is the chairman of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and vice chairman of the Board for Information
• Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the government of Karnataka.
• In April 2012, Kris was appointed as a member of the reconstituted United Nations Global Compact Board for three years.
• On 5 April 2013 he was elected as the president of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2013-14.
• He is a Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation.
• He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
• He is the Chief Mentor of Startup Village.

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