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Narayana Murthy, Sudha Murthy, Rohan Murthy, Akshta Murthy & Rishi Sunak Hot in Google Searches

Posted on 31 August, 2009 | No Comments



Akshata Murthy, the 29-year-old daughter of Infosys founder and Chief Mentor Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murthy, on Sunday tied the knot with her Stanford classmate Rishi Sunak, in a well-attended ceremony at the Hotel Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore.

The Marraige began with a traditional Indian wedding, followed by a typical vegetarian Karnataka lunch and reception. This will be followed by a reception in New York in September.

Akshata’ clad in a splendid orange ghagra-choli, and her husband Sunak, in a dapper suit, welcomed the guests at the Grand Ballroom. Attendees at the wedding were touched by the kindness and personal attention of the Murthy family.

Akshata is currently a venture capitalist in cleantech space based in California. She’s a senior associate at Siderian Ventures, whose aim is to build entrepreneurial, cleantech-enabling businesses with a global perspective. Like all Siderian team members, she is currently employed by Tendris, a Dutch cleantech incubator fund with presence in Amsterdam and San Francisco. Akshata is a marketing director at Tendris.

Like her sibling Rohan — who is a Microsoft fellow doing a doctoral programme in computer science at Harvard University — Akshata schooled in Bangalore. She received her undergrad degree from Claremont McKenna in California and did her MBA from Stanford. She has worked with Deloitte and Unilever.

The Murthy family’s combined worth as per the latest price of Infosys scrip, is Rs 4,000 crore. The couple is worth Rs 1,750 crore, two-thirds of which belong to Sudha. A larger chunk of Rs 2,250 crore belongs to their two children, Akshata and Rohan. Rohan is a doctoral student at Harvard University. Akshata and Rohan are independently very rich by virtue of being shareholders of Infosys.

About Murthy Family:

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. He is currently the non-executive Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys. He was the CEO of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as CEO in 2002, he has broadened his scope of activities to social services as well as promoting India globally.

Murthy’s corporate and social vision has been appreciated globally and he is the recipient of several awards including Padma Vibushan – India’s second highest civilian award.

His wife, Sudha Kulkarni Murthy, is an Indian social worker and accomplished author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation.

They have two kids – Rohan Murthy and Akshata Murthy.

Rohan Murthy was the centre of attraction at sister Akshata’s wedding. Blame it on his choice of outfit, complete with the Mysore Peta that delighted mom Sudha.

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