Explains why some Infosys honchos support AAP. Maybe, they should call it either CIAAP or FFP.
Isn't this conflict of interest? One Infosys guy gets to be a trustee of Ford Foundation and another one lends the reputation of the firm to FFP.
kalyan
N.R. Narayana Murthy
TrusteeN.R. Narayana Murthy, executive chairman of the board of Infosys Limited, serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. He is chair of the board's Economic Opportunity and Assets Committee and a member of the Audit and Proxy committees.
Murthy co-founded Infosys, an international software servicesfirm based in Bangalore, India, in 1981. He has been the company's CEO until 2002 and chairman and chief mentor since 2011. He is currently a trustee of the board of Infosys Science Foundation.
From 1977 to 1981, he headed Patni Computer Systems.
Murthy's board affiliations include the the United Nations Foundation, The Rhodes Trust, Asian Institute of Management(Manila) and India School of Business (Hyderabad). He is also chair of the Public Health Foundation of India and the National Payments Corporation of India. He is a presidential councilor of Cornell University, chairman of the Board of Governors at the School of Management at the Asia Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and a director at Catamaran Management Services Private Limited.
The recipient of numerous honors, Murthy was given the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award, by thegovernment of India in 2008. The government of France conferred on him the Officer of the Legion of Honor in 2008 and the British Government conferred on him the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007. In 2005, he was ranked among The Economist's list of 15 most admired global leaders.
http://www.fordfoundation.org/about-us/leadership/narayana-murthy