At his last media interaction after announcing Infosys' quarterly earnings, the outgoing CEO talks about the company's business, the challenges it faces, and efforts to overcome them.
Shibulal talks about the company's new focus areas under the chairmanship of N R Narayana Murthy, and their rationale.
Infy CEO and MD talks about the factors behind the company's performance in the quarter.
Infosys' co-founder on multitasking at Infosys and the game-changers that made the company.
Interview with Infosys' CEO & MD.
Even as Infosys posted healthy growth for October-December 2013 and raised its revenue forecast for FY14, S D Shibulal, the managing director and chief executive officer, says it's still work in progress.
Numeros Motors is also planning to come up with a passenger vehicle four-wheeler or a three-wheeler by 2027.
Infosys co-founder S D Shibulal has received little over four lakh shares of the company as a gift, taking the total number of shares owned by him to more than 21.6 lakh shares, according to a regulatory filing. Infosys, on Friday, informed the stock exchanges that "4,01,000 equity shares (representing 0.01 per cent) of Infosys Ltd by way of gift as off market transaction on November 12, 2020" were given to Shibulal. The filing did not mention who gifted these shares.
Their investments in start-ups exceed Rs 1,000 crore at present.
Infosys CEO and MD S D Shibulal took home a smaller bonus in the past financial year.
Akshata Murty, the wife of Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, stands to earn Rs 68.17 crore in dividend income from her shareholding in India's second-largest IT firm Infosys. Murty, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, held 3.89 crore shares of Infosys at the end of December, according to company filings with the stock exchanges. Infosys declared a final dividend of Rs 17.50 per share for FY23 (April 2022 to March 2023).
S D Shibulal, former chief executive and managing director of Infosys, has joined the ranks of the company's other founders in nurturing start-ups.
Murty, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, held 3.89 crore shares, or 0.93 per cent, of Infosys at the end of September, according to company filings with the stock exchanges.
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Of the, four are co-founders of Infosys.
The report, published by brokerage firm Ambit Capital Research, also says the promoters hold disproportionately high board representation with respect to their total shareholding in the Bengaluru-based company.
Quits as SAP board member; had made presentations before Infy board in January.
Sources say some large companies are also letting go of employees who aren't open to re-skilling.
It has always been a high point for me at Infosys, says Shibulal.
The company requires a change in leadership, says T V Mohandas Pai, former board member and head of HR & administration at Infosys.
Infosys said the nominations committee will shortlist and evaluate an internal slate of candidates with the assistance of Development Dimensions International, a company specialising in corporate executive evaluations.
Be it the industry laggard performance or harassment allegations by overseas employees, Infosys has a tough road ahead and investors will look at Sikka to sort out the issues.
Company's ADR fell 7% on Nasdaq after CEO Shibulal's comments.
Asked if there was a timeline to see a turnaround at Infosys, Kamath said the country's second largest software services firm was a profitable company.
Q4 turned out to be a much softer quarter than we expected, and some of the ramp-ups did not happen.
Having lost some key personnel, the IT company is sticking to its formula of scouting internally
The son is not being groomed for a bigger role in the company as of now.
Top decision-making body, executive council, will be dissolved on April 1.
Shibulal plans to commission biography of his wife
Infosys chief executive officer and managing director S D Shibulal will be in London to mark the first cross listing of an Indian company, a company statement said.
Customer deferrals, ramp-downs in a few large projects, delays in large deal closures due to Hurricane Sandy may cause threat to outlook.
Mukesh Ambani has got company of at least 29 fellow corporate executives, including four from his own group Reliance Industries, in terms of annual salaries running into crores of rupees for the latest fiscal.
"The global macroeconomic environment is still uncertain. It is and should be a concern for the IT industry," said the Infosys CEO and Managing Director S D Shibulal said.
Infosys, which is sitting on a cash pile of over $3 billion, has met criticism from investors and analysts as rivals like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro have boosted their businesses with multiple acquisitions.
In a major top-level management restructuring, India's second largest software firm Infosys on Saturday named veteran banker K V Kamath as the new chairman to succeed founder N R Narayana Murthy, who retires in August.
Infosys was the only company among the large software services firms, which had not hiked salaries so far.
There has been speculation that Infosys is at an advanced stage of talks to buy a US firm operating in the public services and healthcare space.
Consecutive quarters of missed targets have alarmed the investor community.
Shibulal said currency effects and cancellation of a large transformational programme in Europe led to 'weak' quarterly results.
Chief Operating Officer S D Shibulal denied that the first quarter results regarding volume growth was impacted due to the ongoing reorganiastion process.
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