Rohan Murty
Rohan Murthy (Kannada:ರೋಹನ್ ಮೂರ್ತಿ, he spells his last name differently from his father) is the son of Indian IT industrialist N. R. Narayana Murthy and the co-founder of Infosys . In June 2013, Rohan was appointed as an executive assistant at the Chairman's Office reporting to Narayana Murthy at Infosys, when Narayana Murthy returned to Infosys. His appointment as Vice President at Infosys was subjected to approval by the Minitsry of Corporate Affairs, India.[1] Rohan left company on June 14, 2014 when his father stepped down as Executive Chairman.[2]
Before joining Infosys, Murthy earned a PhD in computer science from Harvard University. His PhD was supported by a Siebel Scholars Fellowship and a Microsoft Research Fellowship.[3] Prior to his PhD Rohan Murthy studied computer science at Cornell University. Although he does not read Sanskrit, as a PhD student, he took a class focussing on Kumarila Bhatta’s Shlokavartika which got him interested in ancient Indian Philosophy and sciences.[4]
He is said to have owned Infosys shares worth $347 million on June 1, 2013.[5]
He is the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India, which is a continuation of the Clay Saskrit Library Project headed by Sheldon Pollock. He recently rejected a petition[6] asking that Sheldon Pollock be removed from the position of the chief editor of the Murty Classical Library.[7]
Personal life
He grew up with a deep passion for programming since his childhood.[8] He studied at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School for fourteen years, from pre-school to high school.
Shrinivas Kulkarni, a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology is his maternal uncle. He is said to have been a major influence on Rohan.[9]
He did his undergraduate studies in Computer Science at Cornell University. [10] He obtained a PhD in computer engineering[11] at Harvard in 2011 where he worked on Opportunistic Wireless Networks, which work by continually seeking and using underused portions of spectrum currently, and vacating them if any incumbent returns.
He is currently on leave from being a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. he is associated with Catamaran Ventures, a $127-million venture capital fund headed by N.R.N. Murthy.[12]
Murthy was married to Lakshmi Venu (Srinivasan), daughter of the TVS Motors chairman, Venu Srinivasan, who had studied at Yale.[13] in June 2011. She was then the vice-president in charge of global business strategy at Sundaram-Clayton (holding company of TVS Motors). She was elevated to Joint Managing Director of Sundaram-Clayton in 2014. They separated in 2013 were granted divorce in October 2015.[14]
External
- Official web page of Rohan Narayana Murty at Harvard.
See also
References
- ^ "Rohan Narayana Murthy as Vice President in Infosys".
- ^ Rohan Murty to leave Infosys on June 14, BT Online Bureau New Delhi, June 12, 2014
- ^ "Rohan Narayana Murthy Harvard education 2013". Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ The modern revivalists, Elizabeth Kuruvilla, Jan 24 2015
- ^ Rohan Murty, a multi million-dollar executive assistant, June 1, 2013
- ^ Pro-JNU Statement Spawns Petition For Ouster Of Sheldon Pollock As Editor Of Murty Classical Library, HuffPost India, Indrani Basu, 01/03/2016
- ^ Sheldon Pollock Stays, Says Rohan Murty On Protests Against Sanskrit Scholar, Divyanshu Dutta Roy, NDTV March 04, 2016
- ^ Code, work, fun: Rohan Murty on why he doesn't consider work as ‘work’, Saritha Rai, Indian Express, May 3, 2015
- ^ The Unlikely Infoscion, Doting father or boss under pressure? Suveen K. Sinha, Business Today July 7, 2013
- ^ Imported From India, Best And Brightest Want To Work In U.S., CBS 60 Minutes, 2003 Jun 19, Rebecca Leung
- ^ Lunch with BS: Rohan Murty, the master of many trades, Rahul Jacob, March 6, 2015
- ^ Meet one of India's richest executive assistants: Narayana Murthy's son Rohan, Jun 2, 2013
- ^ "Narayana Murthy". Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ Power couple Rohan Murty & Lakshmi Venu formally separate, Economic Times, Nov 20, 2015