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Infosys comes first and all of us accept this

Infosys comes first and all of us accept this

S Kris Gopalakrishnan is president, chief operating officer and member of the board of IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd. He is one of the founders of Infosys and plays a key role in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.

He began his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a software engineer in 1979. 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)

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