From tomorrow, when senior management at Infosys Technologies Pvt Ltd need someone to look up to for advice on day-to-day basis, they will walk into the office of CEO Nandan Nilekani — not co-founder and the man who scripted the Infosys story N R Narayana Murthy.
Today, Murthy walked into the sunset, in terms of executive functions at Infosys, when he turned 60 and relinquished the positions of executive chairman and executive director of the company.
‘NRN’ as he is popularly known will not be at his corporate office at the company’s campus at Bangalore from Monday.
Instead, as non-executive chairman of the company’s board, additional director and chief mentor, Murthy will be sort of “super management,’’ making the occasional visit to sit at the company’s heritage building, in a newly created office for him.
The man who built Infosys on the sheer power of his vision, aspiration, determination and value system, and fuelled the new economy dream in India, spent his last working day at Infosys on Friday.
‘‘It was a day like any other. He came in as usual, worked through the day and left at 5.15 pm. The only thing in the form of a send-off was a board lunch where we laughed and joked and he told us he would try to visit us as infrequently as possible,’’ says T V Mohandas Pai, head of human resource, education and research at Infosys.