Senapathy Gopalakrishnan

Senapathy Gopalakrishnan General Information

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Mr. Senapathy Gopalakrishnan is the Founder of Pratithi Investment Trust. Mr. Gopalakrishnan is an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Axilor Ventures. He also serves as Advisor, Fund 1 & Alpha Fund art Indian Angel Network. He serves as Senior Advisor at Teachers' Venture Growth. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at the IAN Fund. He served as an Advisory Board Member at Avagmah. He serves as an Advisor at NuVentures. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Axilor Ventures. He served as the chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys from 2007 to 2011. Recognized 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 was selected to 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) for 2013-14 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 him the Padma Bhushan, the country's third-highest civilian honor. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is the Chairman, of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is on the Board of Trustees of Chennai Mathematical Institute. He holds MS degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.