When N.R. Narayana Murthy walks into a room, you notice his smile. With none of the glamour of a billionaire—dressed in a simple old-fashioned suit—he carries with him the purpose and clarity of a successful businessman. He is approachable and speaks with ease and sincerity.

Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 with $250, after converting his “confused leftist” views to “determined compassionate capitalism” while on an eleven-month hitchhiking trip from Paris to Mysore in the late 1970s. He had his epiphany during a trying freight train ride out of a communist European city (now in modern Serbia) where he was forced to go without food for almost five days.

In August of this year, he retired from Infosys, now a six-billion-dollar company (with $70 billion in revenues). An IIT alum, Murthy serves on an exhaustive list of boards of banks, the UN and Ford Foundations, and most of the elite business schools in the U.S. He identifies himself as a “compassionate capitalist” and was in Atlanta promoting one of the nonprofits he supports.

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