Nandan Nilekani
Bangalore, India
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology
India
software services, Self Made
$2,200,000,000
1116
#1116 Billionaires 2019
#80 India's Richest 2018
Nandan Nilekani is the cofounder of tech giant Infosys and its non-executive chairman since August 2017.Nilekani, who left Infosys in 2009, was brought back in 2017 after a boardroom shakeup at the company and the sudden departure of its CEO.Nilekani is credited with building Aadhar, India's mammoth identity card scheme, while chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.The tech magnate, who still has shares in Infosys, has been backing startups in recent years.He and wife Rohini signed the Giving Pledge in November 2017.
Nilekani and his wife contributed $17 million to philanthropic causes in the past year, half of it to their EkStep Foundation.He has teamed up with Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Tata Group, to start Avanti Finance to provide microloans to the poor.
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