Bengaluru, India – January 20, 2020: Infosys, one of the biggest IT amenity exporter declared the nomination of retired co-founder and the Chairman Emeritus, of the organisation N R Narayana Murthy, as Infosys’s Executive Chairman.

The decision of appointing Murthy was discussed when the company’s performance slipped over the last two years and which is lower than industry growth. This brings Infosys position down which is quite unusual for a company known to set industry standards. The company also appointed Murthy’s son Rohan Murthy as an executive assistant to his father for the duration of five year tenure.

"This calling was sudden, unexpected, and most unusual. But then, Infosys is my middle child. Therefore, I have put aside my plans-in-progress and accepted this responsibility," Murthy said.

Murthy has given all administrative functions at Infosys when he was sixty in the year 2006 and took in charge as executive chairman of the board after guiding as the established CEO from 1981 to 2002. He also assisted as non-executive chairman and chief mentor from 2006 to 2011.

During a sudden declaration press conference at Electronic City campus of Infosys, the decision by the Board of directors listened to everybody’s approval, including shareholders. He discharged from Infosys in 2011 but has not held an executive title in the last seven years.

Narayana Murthy is the co- founder and Indian Information Technology Industrialist of a multinational corporation. He perused electrical engineering at National Institute of Engineering in Mysore and attained Mtech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

He served with Indian Institute of Management as Chief system programmer before starting his career in Infosys. He joined Infosys in the years 1981 and served as the CEO from 1981 to 2002. Later he served as the Chairman at Infosys during the years 2002 to 2011. He has been recorded as one of the 12 greatest entrepreneurs by fortune magazine.

Infosys delivers software expansion, preservation and independent authentication services to organisations in finance, insurance, manufacturing and in different fields. One of its recognized service products is Finacle which is a world-wide banking solution with several elements for trade and corporate banking.