Rohan Murty is the son of Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy. He was the founder of the Murthy Classical Library of India.
Wiki/Biography
Rohan Murty was born in 1983 in Hubli, Karnataka (36 years old in 2019). He was educated at Bishop Cotton School for Boys, Bangalore. Later, he moved to New York to complete his graduation in Computer Science from Cornell University. In 2011, he received a PhD in computer engineering from Harvard University in the United States. His PhD was supported by a Siebel Scholars Fellowship and a Microsoft Research Fellowship.
On his official Harvard homepage, he wrote:
I don’t remember much about the early years, but many of us learned Kannada in junior high and high school. I talked to a car driver, a cricketer, a giraffe, a senior mug, another mug, a pianist, a geek, a genius, a banger, a The lawyer went to high school with a pilot. “
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family, caste and wife
Rohan Murthy was born into a Hindu Brahmin family. His father NR Narayana Murthy is the co-founder of Infosys and his mother Sudha Murthy is one of the founders of “Infosys Foundation”. He has a sister, Akshata Murthy, who is married to Rishi Sunak (British Conservative politician). Rohan’s uncle, astrophysics professor Shrinivas Kulkarni (Shrinivas Kulkarni) had a great influence on Rohan.
NR Narayana Murthy with Rohan and Akshata
Rohan Murty with his father, sister and mother
In 2011, Rohan married Lakshmi Venu, the daughter of TVS Motors chairman Venu Srinivasan. Due to some personal issues, the couple separated in 2013 and divorced in 2015. One of their close friends said in an interview,
They are all lovely people. They came together and then had some disagreements. These things will happen. Now they have gone their separate ways. Hopefully, after all this, they can both move on and find a life partner that’s more suitable for them. “
Rohan Murty and Lakshmi Venu
Later, Rohan met Aparna through a mutual friend and dated her for almost three years. Aparna is the daughter of retired SBI employee Savithri Krishnan and commandant KR Krishnan, who live in Kochi. The couple dated for three years and announced their wedding on December 2, 2019.
Rohan Murty and Aparna Krishnan
Profession
In 2010, Rohan founded the “Indian Murthy Classical Library” with the aim of reintroducing Indian literature to a new generation. It is a continuation of the Clay Sanskrit Library project led by Sheldon Pollock. He is associated with Catamaran Ventures, a $127 million venture capital fund led by NRN Murthy. Rohan joined Infosys in June 2013 as an administrative assistant to his father. In the same year, he was appointed Vice President of Infosys. He left the company on June 14, 2014, following the resignation of his father as executive chairman. Luohan is a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
net worth
In 2019, his estimated net worth was $500 million.
favorite thing
- Singer: Shania Twain, Michael Jackson and Elton John
- Band: Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses
- Cartoon characters: Tom and Jerry
Facts/Trivia
- He suffers from infantile eczema, the result of an allergy to vaccines in childhood.
- His surname is spelled differently from his father’s; as Muti rather than Muti.
- Rohan has been a programming enthusiast since childhood. Sharing his childhood experiences, he said:
We had a clunky old machine at home that my dad sometimes used for work. I was a bored eight-year-old whose only non-school activity was playing tennis. I didn’t study, I didn’t have friends, and I didn’t have any hobbies. One day I turned on my computer and started messing around. My dad got angry and yelled at me, saying I should do something more creative. My mom enrolled me in a night class where they taught basic programming three times a week. The people in my class are all working adults. It all made no sense to me in fourth grade, but I persevered. Six months later, we had to work on a project and I started building a checkout-cum-stocking program for a nearby grocery store. Suddenly everything I learned clicked; it was very exciting. There was no internet back then and I would go to the library and look for books in question so I could write code. “
- In 2016, he rejected a petition to remove Sheldon Pollock as editor-in-chief of the Murthy Classical Library.
- His doctoral thesis is considered a seminal paper based on the use of white space (spectrum).
- He is a dog lover and owns a dog named Gopi.
Rohan Murty and his dog Gopi
- His hobbies include reading, dancing and traveling. He learned swing dancing and salsa dancing.
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