Nandan Nilekani

About Nandan Nilekani

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 Aadhaar, 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 backed Fundamentum, a venture capital fund aimed at technology companies. In August 2022, it raised $227 million for its second fund.

In June 2023, he donated $38 million to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his alma mater, to expand research and infrastructure.