Hurun India Rich List 2024: Hurun Rich List 2024 has released the list of India’s richest people of the year 2024. According to this list, Narayan Murthy, the founder of the giant IT company Infosys, is behind his partner Senapati Gopalakrishnan in terms of wealth. Senapati Gopalakrishnan is the co-founder of the company. According to the list released last week, Gopalkrishnan’s total wealth is Rs 38,500 crore. At the same time, Narayan Murthy’s net worth is Rs 36,600 crore. Both are at the fourth and fifth place in the list of the rich of the country’s tech giants. At the same time, Narayan Murthy is the 69th richest person in India.
Who is Senapathi Gopalakrishnan?
Senapati ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan is one of the co-founders of the giant IT company Infosys. He served as CEO and Managing Director between 2007 and 2011. Apart from this, he also held the post of Vice Chairman of the company between 2011 and 2014. He is 69 years old. He is currently the chairman of a startup company named Axilor Ventures. He has invested in startup companies like Goodhome, Kaagaz and Encash. Senapati Gopalakrishnan is known for his philanthropic work along with investing in companies. He has started a trust named Pratiksha along with his wife Sudha Gopalakrishnan, which focuses on brain research.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of IIT Madras and IIT Bangalore. He was also awarded the country’s third highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan in 2011. He is also handling the responsibility of Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore. Along with this, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Later founded Infosys
Senapati Gopalakrishnan is one of the co-founders of Infosys. Apart from him, Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, SD Shibulal, K Dinesh and NS Raghavan are also the founding members of Infosys. At the time of the establishment of the company, it had only 20 thousand rupees. But today it is among the world’s leading IT companies. Its market value is more than 80 billion dollars i.e. 67,000 crore rupees.
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