I’m last of the jokers left; no plan B after I leave Infosys: Nilekani

TIL Desk/Business/Bengaluru/ Infosys may be looking for talent to fill the shoes of Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of the technology giant. When asked about the role that he would play at Infosys in future, Nilekani at a media event said he would be handing over his role to a non-founder when he exits the company.

This even as N R Narayana Murthy, another co-founder, rued that his earlier decision to not allow the children of Infosys founders or the next generation of promoters to work at the company was wrong. “I am the last of the jokers (founders) left,” said Nilekani on Wednesday at an event in Bengaluru that commemorated the four decades of the IT giant.

“My challenge is a little more acute since I have some founder’s clout. “But I would be handing over to a chairman at whatever point I would exit from the scene and that (person) would be a non-founder. “If you hand over to somebody (the responsibility) and it doesn’t work out, there is no Plan B; I can’t come back at the age of 75,” said Nilekani, without specifying the date of his exit.