Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani has pioneered several path-breaking initiatives to transform India. Nandan is the non-executive Chairman of India’s largest technology services company, Infosys, that he co-founded in 1981. During his five-year tenure (March 2002 – April 2007) as the company’s CEO, revenue grew six-fold to US$3 Billion. Nandan went on to work on what is today hailed as the biggest social project on the planet: Aadhaar. Nandan was the Founding Chairman of UIDAI, which was a Government of India initiative to give every Indian resident a unique ID named ‘Aadhaar’, and served in the Government till March 2014. Over 1 Billion people got an Aadhaar ID within 6 years of launch. As an investor now, Nandan continues to wear this think-big cap. He thoroughly enjoys looking at how Indian entrepreneurs identify original Indian problems and then solve these with application of technology.