Medical and Technology Achievements

Science and Technology : Medical and Technology Achievements

1.N.R. Narayanamurthy:

N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys Technologies is one of the most famous personalities in India's I-T sector. Born on August 20, 1946, he obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering under University of Mysore in 1967 and went on to do his Masters from IIT Kanpur in 1969.

He joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. While at Pune, he met his wife Sudha Murty In 1981, he founded Infosys alongwith with six otherpeople. He served as president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies, India from 1992 to 1994.

Murthy was the CEO of Infosys for twenty years, and was succeeded by Nandan Nilekani in March 2002. He functioned as the Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006.

He is on the governing bodies of many leading institutes like the International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of various well-known institutions like the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business School, Yale University and the University of Tokyo's President's Council.

Besides, he has served on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, as a member of the Prime Minister's council on trade and industry, as a member of the Asia Advisory Board of British Telecommunications and was the Chairman of the committee on Corporate Governance appointed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 2003.

Narayanamurthy has won several accolades in India and abroad. In 2000, he was awarded the Padma Shri and was voted the World Entrepreneur of the Year - 2003 by Ernst andYoung. In 2001, his name was included by TIME / CNN in the list of twenty-five, most influential global executives. He was ranked by the Economist as the 8th among the top 15 most admired global leaders in 2005.

Though he retired on 20th August, 2006, he continues to be the Non-Executive Chairman.

2.Sabeer Bhatia:

Sabeer Bhatia-co-founder of Hotmail, is one among select group of people who have made it big in America's Silicon Valley. Born in Chandigarh, Sabeer Bhatia did his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore. He graduated from Caltech and went to Stanford to pursue his MS in Electrical Engineering. Sabeer attended many lectures by famous like Steve Jobs and was determined to make it big. After completing his Masters, he joined Apple computers. He left Apple soon after. He teamed up with his partner to create a web-based e-mail system Microsoft bought Hotmail on December 30th, 1997, for a reported sum of $400M. After the success of Hotmail, Bhatia in April 1999, he started another venture, Arzoo Inc, which however had to be shut down. In 2006, Arzoo was relaunched.

Bhatia has won many awards. Among the notable ones include the "Entrepreneur of the Year" awarded by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1997, the "TR100" award, presented by MIT to 100 young innovators expected to have the greatest impact on technology in the next few years. Besides, he was named by TIME magazine as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business in 2002.

3.Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty:

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, a renowned cardiac surgeon founded the Narayana Hrudayalaya , a multi-specialty hospital in the outskirts of Bangalore which has earned fame across all of India and the neighbouring countries. Even patients from developed countries have been flocking to this hospital because of the high-quality and affordable treatment. Dr. Shetty is also credited with introducing Yashasvini, a health insurance scheme provided at very nominal rates in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka.

He did his graduation and post-graduation in Medicine from the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, before moving to the United Kingdom for his education. After attending a basic training in Cardiac Surgery at the West Midlands Cardiothoracic Rotation programme, he trained at the Guy's Hospital in London between 1983 and 1989. After returned to India in 1989, he started off at the B.M. Birla Hospital in Kolkata. He then moved on to Bangalore. In 1997 he teamed up to start the Manipal Heart Foundation. He has single-handedly brought down the cost of many complicated heart surgeries, bringing them within the reach of many people.

He has a long list of achievements. Dr.Shetty is the first heart surgeon in India to perform neo-natal open-heart surgery, the first surgeon in India to use an artificial heart and many others. He operates kids under twelve for free and a major chunk of his operations are on children.