Business: Special Series; Nandan Mohan Nilekani, 44

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Nov 8, 1999

SPECIAL SERIES

Nandan Mohan Nilekani, 44
Managing Director, Infosys

Pinch-Hitter
Nandan Nilekani isn't the archetypal laid-back infotechie. He's always nattily dressed, always sharp, an ideas-into-action man. Ever since he, along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, set up Infosys in a Pune garage in 1981, Murthy always turned to Nilekani -- the industry buzz is "Murthy thinks, Nilekani executes" -- for deadline-busting precision jobs.Nilekani will soon have his turn at ideas, as designated successor to Narayana Murthy in arguably India's most ex-citing e-service company with revenues of Rs 513 crore and an astounding market capitalisation of Rs 10,000 crore. "Others talk e-commerce, we'll deliver it," he stumps. Nobody disputes it. In a company with awesome peer pressure, if people can't deliver, they're not fools to propose it.

-Stephen David

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