In case you didn’t know, Sudha Murty is a highly educated woman. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology in Hubli, Karnataka. In addition to that, she earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. It can be said that she was more than qualified to join Infosys – the company founded by her husband Narayana Murthy.
However, Narayana Murthy was strictly against members of his family joining his company. But today, he regrets that decision and he recently opened up about it.
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Moneycontrol quoted him saying:
“I was wrong. Now I don’t believe in this. I think what I was doing those days was wrong. I was wrongly idealistic and in some ways, I think, I was influenced a lot by the environment of those days. I had this feeling that good corporate governance means not bringing family into it because those days it was only family where all kinds of children used to come and run the company. There used to be violation of all laws.”
He admitted that she was more qualified than some of the founders of Infosys. It was after he discussed the issue with a couple of professors of philosophy from two top universities in the world that he realized he was wrong about not letting her join the company.
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Back when Sudha Murty was Sudha Kulkarni, Narayana Murthy had fallen in love with her. She had even given him Rs 10,000 as the seed capital to set up Infosys which she took out from her emergency fund.
On the flip side, Sudha Murthy joined Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd. (Telco), which is now known as Tata Motors. She scripted history as she was the first female engineer to be hired at Telco.
What an asset she would have been if she worked at Infosys!