Nandan Nilekani
$3.1B
Born
Jun 02, 1955
Age
70
Source of Wealth
Software services
Residence
Bangalore,
Citizenship
India
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology
- Nandan Nilekani is the cofounder of tech giant Infosys and its non-executive chairman since 2017.
- Nilekani, who left Infosys in 2009, was brought back in 2017 after a boardroom shakeup at the company and the sudden departure of its CEO.
- Nilekani is credited with building Aadhaar, India's mammoth identity card scheme, during his tenure as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.
- The tech magnate, who still has shares in Infosys, has backed Fundamentum, a venture capital fund aimed at technology companies.
- In 2023, he donated $38 million to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his alma mater, to expand research and infrastructure.
- He teamed up with Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Tata Group, to start Avanti Finance to provide microloans to the poor.
- He and wife Rohini have signed the Giving Pledge. They run separate philanthropic arms, which focus on areas such as urbanization and biodiversity.
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