Background
Kris Gopalakrishnan was born in Trivandrum on April 5, 1955.
Kris Gopalakrishnan was born in Trivandrum on April 5, 1955.
Indian Institutes of Technology. Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
He is also one of its seven founders. He was elected as the President of India"s apex industry chamber "Confederaton of Indian Industry (CII)" for the year 2013-2014. He spent his school days in Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thycaud, Trivandrum.
Kris obtained an Master of Science
(Physics) in 1977 and M. Technology (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras.
He started his career as a software engineer with Patni Computers, Mumbai in 1979. 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 United States. consumer products industry.
From 1987 to 1994, Gopalakrishnan headed the technical operations of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Atlanta, Georgia). In 2007, Kris took over as Chief Executive Officer 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.
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.
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. He was named as non-executive Chairman of Jetsynthesys, a digital company headed by Rajan Navani
On 5 April 2013 he was elected as the president of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2013-2014.
He is a Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation.
He is the Chief Mentor of Startup Village. Kris has contributed Rs. 225 Crore (40 Million United States dollar) 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.
In April 2012, Kris was appointed as a member of the reconstituted United Nations Global Compact Board for three years. He is also a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society.