The Hindu Business Line : `Infosys' goal is to be global transformation partner'

Pune April 19 The Co-Chairman designate of Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mr Nandan Nilekani, has a romantic side to him, very much like the Chairman, Mr Narayana Murthy. And if the latter courted and won wife Sudha over innumerable cups of chai in Pune, for Mr Nilekani, the favoured place was Mumbai's famed Jehangir art gallery.

"All we IITians would go to Elphinstone College," Mr Nilekani said, speaking in a lighter vein after delivering the annual lecture on Futuready organised by Praj Industries Ltd.

"(For Rohini and me), the favourite place was the Jehangir art gallery and the restaurant nearby," he grinned, before confessing that he was `too shy' to say anything more on the issue.

On new role

Earlier, speaking on a more serious note about his role once he assumes the office of co-chairman on June 22, Mr Nilekani said he would address key client relationships, and be a brand ambassador for the company.

"Infosys' goal is to be a global transformation partner," he explained, adding that thought leadership on industry issues, and putting forth an agenda for the future were part of the new role he saw for himself.

With the company growing at a rate of 28-30 per cent annually, Mr Nilekani said the BPO business and Europe and Australia were strong markets. Infosys was also working on creating business models that were not based on numbers of people, he said.

During his speech, Mr Nilekani asserted that India, with its large pool of people between 15 and 65 years of age, was crucially poised to receive the demographic dividend.

"It comes only once in the history of a nation," he said, adding that the time to cash upon it was "now".

Stating that issues such as infrastructure development and primary education were `wagons that have already left the station', he said the key drivers for the future would be how India looked at energy, used biofuels in an environmentally-sustainable way, dealt with costs of healthcare and pensions and used technology to develop governance capabilities.

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