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Spotlight on Infosys promoters at AGM on Saturday
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IANS | 23 Jun, 2018
With the return of co-founder Nandan M. Nilekani as Infosys Chairman,
the spotlight at the IT firm's 37th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on
Saturday will be back on its promoters, who skipped the last AGM as they
fell foul with its previous board and management.
"We hope the
company's main promoter (N.R. Narayana Murthy) and other co-founders
will attend the AGM as they used to every year when they were at the
helm and after since Nilakeni is back as Chairman," an Infosys investor
told IANS on Friday here.
Murthy and other co-founders, including
Nilekani, S. Gopalakrishanan, S.D. Shibulal and K. Dinesh kept away for
the first time from the company's AGM on June 24, 2017 due to serious
differences over governance issues with some of the Board's previous
members and its first non-founder Chief Executive Vishal Sikka.
"I
received a letter from Nilekani over a month ago, enclosing the notice
for the AGM to approve the annual accounts for fiscal 2017-18, dividend
and other resolutions. With a new Board and management, I hope the
company is out of its worst crisis," said the retail investor,
preferring anonymity.
Since Nilekani rejoined the $10.94-billion
software major in August 2017 eight years after he resigned as CEO to
join the then UPA government as head of the state-run UIDAI, which
issues the unique identification card Aadhaar, the company has embarked
on Infosys-3 version, with a paradigm shift to disruptive and digital
technologies.
The exit of former Board Chairman R. Sehasayee,
Sikka and two other Board members after months of bitter war with the
co-founders, especially Murthy over probity in the acquisition of Panaya
in 2015 and huge severance package to former Chief Financial Officer
Rajiv Bansal, allowed Nilekani to step in and steer the company out of
the crisis.
"Though the company was back on the growth path even
when Sikka was running it, the spat between promoters and the previous
Board dented its image and over-shadowed its performance. Nilekani's
return has done good for all," said the investor who has been holding
the blue-chip's scrip (shares) for a long time.
The appointment
of Salil S. Parekh as the new and second non-founder Chief Executive
since January has made the company stay focused on business growth and
adopt to the changing technology landscape as its clients have been
asking more for less.
Parekh, 53, joined Infosys on January 2 from Capgemini where he was a member of the Group Executive Board.
"Our
clients, including large enterprises and government organisations, are
at different points in their digital journey. We are positioning our
capabilities to help them navigate their next across the different
dimensions of this journey," said Parekh in his first letter to the
company's shareholders ahead of the AGM.
The company also
rewarded its investors, with a record 870 per cent aggregate dividend or
Rs 43.50 per share of Rs 5 face value for fiscal 2017-18.
Interestingly, the AGM also marks the company's 25th year of going public in 1993 when its shares were listed on the BSE.
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