Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan to retire tomorrow

Founders of Indian IT firm, Infosys Technology NR Narayana Murthy (2nd from left), Kris Gopalakrishnan (2nd from right), SD Shibulal (left) and Nandan Nilekani (right) attend a media interaction prior to a function to bid farewell to the founding team of Infosys in Bangalore yesterday. Kris Gopalakrishnan, non-executive vice-chairman and the last of the serving co-founders of Infosys, will retire tomorrow, bringing down the curtains on a historic chapter at the IT major. Gopalakrishnan, along with six others including Murthy, founded Infosys in 1981 with a capital of $250 and shaped it into an $8bn company which is also India’s second-largest IT services company. After Nandan Nilekani resigned from the company in 2007, Gopalakrishnan was made CEO and MD.