S Gopalakrishnan
President, Chief Operating Officer and Joint Managing Director,
Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ : INFY)

S. Gopalakrishnan (called Kris by his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited, a highly respected Consulting, IT services and Business Process Management company operating in the global market. He has played a key role at Infosys in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.

Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a Software Engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an Assistant Project Manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling the LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant.

In 1981, Kris, along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited. The initial years of his responsibility at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. During 1987-1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical).

In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company. In April 2002 he was appointed as Chief operating officer and since August 2006 is also the President and Joint Managing Director of the Company. His responsibilities include Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions. Kris is also the Chairperson of Infosys Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Limited.

Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology Education Standards Board (BITES) set up by Karnataka Government. He is on the board of directors of National Internet Exchange of India. He is also the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Karnataka Region. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.