Senapathy Gopalakrishnan
IAC Member Since 2018
Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan is the Chairman of Axilor Ventures, an accelerator that helps start-ups during the early stage of their business journey. Kris served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014 and the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the Co-Founders of Infosys.
He is recognised as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the Top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives and selected as one of the winners of the second Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. He also selected as part of Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India's apex industry chamber, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in 2013-2014 and served as one of the Co-Chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.
In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third-highest civilian honour. Kris serves on the Board of Governors of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and is the Chairman, Board of Governors of International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Vision Group on Information Technology of Karnataka Government and the Chairman of CII Digital Council.
Kris is the chairman of Itihaasa Research and Digital which publishes history of Indian IT industry as “
Itihaasa” (
http://www.itihaasa.com/) app as well as reports on industrial and academic research in India. Kris invests in promoting research on brain sciences, aging related disorders as well as investing in start-ups and start-up ecosystem.
Kris holds a Master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Kris is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) and an Honorary Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) of India.
*Updated as of 15 September 2022
