Infosys today announced the appointment of Ms Roopa Kudva as an Independent Member of its Board of Directors.

Ms. Kudva is the Managing Director and CEO of CRISIL, (a subsidiary of Standard & Poor’s) and the seventh Independent Director on the Infosys Board. Carol M Browner, Prof John W. Etchemendy, Jeffrey Sean Lehman, R Seshasayee, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Ravi Venkatesan are the other six Independent Directors on the Board.

Ms. Kudva has led CRISIL’s evolution from India’s leading credit rating agency to a diversified analytical company with clients ranging from the largest investment banks of the world to tens of thousands of small firms spread across India.

She features regularly in lists of the most powerful women in business compiled by prominent publications including Fortune and Business Today and has won many prestigious awards such as, the Indian Merchants’ Chamber Ladies’ Wing’s ‘Woman of the Year’ award 2013-2014. She holds a post graduate diploma in management from IIM-Ahmedabad and is a member of several policy-level committees relating to the Indian financial system including committees of SEBI and RBI.

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