This presentation is about Nandan Nilekani from infosys...Prepared by my group.

2. OVERVIEW
ABOUT NANDAN NILEKANI
EARLY LIFE
EDUCATION
ABOUT INFOSYS
CAREER
HONOURS AND AWARDS

3. ABOUT NANDAN NILEKANI
Born : 2 June 1955.
At : Sirsi.
District : Uttara Kannada.
State : Karnataka India.
Residence : Bangalore
Occupation : Chairman of Unique Identification
Authority of India(UIDAI).
Region : Hinduism.

4. EARLY LIFE
FAMILY BACKGROUND:
Nandan Manohar Nilekani was born in Sirsi town in
Karnataka.
Mohan Rao Nilekani(Father).
His father worked as a General Manager of Mysore and
Minerva Mills.
He has an elder brother, Vijay, who works in the Nuclear
Energy Institute.

5. EDUCATION
He studied at St. Joseph's High School Dharwad,
Studied at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai where
he graduated with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering in
1978.

6. INFOSYS
• Type :Public company
• Traded as : BSE
NSE
NASDAQ
• Industry :IT services, IT consulting.
• Founder(s) :N.R. Narayana Murthy,
Nandan Nilekani. N.S Raghavan,
S. Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal,
K Dinesh, Ashok Arora.

7. Headquarte : Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Area served : Worldwide.
Employees :1,33,560 (March 2011)
Total equity : US$ 6.122 billion(2011)
Total assets :US$ 7.010 billion (2011)
Revenue :US$ 6.041 billion (2011)
Services :Information technology,
consulting services,
solutions and outsourcing.

8. Infosys Limited, formerly known as Infosys Technologies
Limited.
Infosys is the second largest IT company in India with
1,33,560 employees (including subsidiaries) as of March
2011.
Rank 28th globally in the list of IT services.
Offices in 33 countries.

9. HISTORY OF INFOYSIS
Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981
By seven entrepreneurs: N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan
Nilekani, Kris Gopalakrishna, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, Ashok
Arora, & N. S. Raghavan.
They started the company with an initial investment of INR
(Indian National Rupees) 10,000.
The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt
Ltd.”
Infosys was rated for best employer to work in 2000, 2001,
and 2002

10. Infosys has the largest corporate education center in the
world at Mysore. It can accommodate 14000 candidates
at one time.
Charity
In 2005, Infosys donated Rs.10 million to help the
effects of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan.

12. Infosys Infosys has
more than
Infosys crossed 1,33,560
got its $100 employees and
first Million has presence in
foreign and was more than 33
client. listed on countries
across the
NASDAQ. world.
1987 1993 1999 2006 2011
Became a Infosys
public completed
25 years of
limited Milestones its existence
company and its
and revenues
received crossed $ 2
ISO 9001 billion.

13. Key Success Factors
Sound Management Skills
Commitment To Values, Speed ,Imagination and
Excellence
Personnel Management
Infrastructure

14. Other Success Factors
Invest in well understood, proven product & not just R&D.
While dealing with investors, always under-promise and
over deliver.
Have respect for the competition.
Leaders in the making.

15. CAREER
After graduating from IIT Bombay in 1978, he joined
Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems.
where he was interviewed by N.R. Narayana Murthy.
Three years later, in 1981, Murthy walked out of Patni
following a disagreement with one of the Patni brothers.
So his entire division walked out with him. And the
defectors decided to start their own company, infosys

16. Nilekani became the Chief Executive Officer of Infosys in
March 2002.
Nilekani served as CEO of the company from March 2002 to
April 2007.
He left Infosys on 9 July 2009.
And serve as the chairperson of the Unique Identification
Authority of India(UIDAI).
He co-founded India’s National Association of Software and
Service Companies (NASSCOM).

17. HONOURS AND AWARDS
Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Delhi
Forbes “Businessman of the Year” from Asia in 2007.
Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian honors awarded
by the Government of India - 2006.
He Received the 'Legend in Leadership Award' by the Yale
University in November 2009. He is the first Indian to receive
the top honour.

18. In 2003 he also received ‘Asia’s Businessmen of the Year’
award from Fortune magazine’s.
‘World’s most respected business leaders’ in 2002 and
2003, according to a global survey by Financial Times.

19. PROBLEM FACED TO START INFOSYS
“At that time India was not a develop economy, with
many foreign exchange restrictions,
the telecom infrastructure was not good.
Venture capital was unheard of, and the risks were
enormous,”.
no influential connections.