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'''Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan''' is widely recognized as a global business and technology thought leader for his role in growing the IT services industry worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Infosys - S. Gopalakrishnan: Co-founder {{!}} Management Profiles|url=https://www.infosys.com/about/management-profiles/gopalakrishnan.html|access-date=2021-06-13|website=www.infosys.com}}</ref> He co-founded [[Infosys]], where he served as the chief executive officer and managing director from 2007 to 2011, and as vice chairman from 2011 to 2014. Following his retirement from Infosys, Kris has been very active in promoting the Indian startup ecosystem, and philanthropically supporting research on brain sciences, aging related disorders, and healthcare in India. He has also been on the Board of Trustees for the [[Infosys Prize|Infosys Science Foundation]] from 2009, and currently serves as the President of the Board.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris Gopalakrishnan the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third-highest civilian honour. He was voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives and selected as one of the winners of the second Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. He also was selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He is an active contributor to industry - having served as the President of India's apex industry chamber [[Confederation of Indian Industry]] (CII) in 2013-14, and as one of the co-chairs of the [[World Economic Forum]] in Davos in January 2014.

He actively shapes the technology and startup ecosystem through a myriad of roles. Kris is the Chairman of [[Axilor Ventures]], an early stage startup accelerator and venture fund. He is also the Chairman of [https://itihaasa.com itihaasa Research and Digital], a not-for-profit think-tank focused on the evolution of technology domains in India. He serves on the Board of Governors of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and is the Chairman, Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Vision Group on Information Technology of Karnataka Government and the Chairman of CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups.

In 2016, Kris Gopalakrishnan founded '''itihaasa Research and Digital''', a think-tank focused on the evolution of technology domains in India such as AI, brain sciences and digital transformation. itihaasa’s flagship project is chronicling the six decades of the evolution of the history of Indian IT.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} Itihaasa|url=https://itihaasa.com/|access-date=2021-06-13|website=itihaasa.com}}</ref>

1)    Chairing the governing board of India’s INR 3,660 crore National Mission on Cyber-Physical System Technologies<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)|url=https://nmicps.gov.in/Home/ICPSNMHOME/MGB|access-date=2021-06-13|website=nmicps.gov.in}}</ref>

4)    Member of DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance’s Strategic Advisory Council

11)  Chairperson of India’s committee on Non-Personal Data Governance<ref>MeitY Office Memorandum No. 24(4)/2019-CLES dated 13.09.2019</ref>

Kris has contributed Rs. 225 crores (approximately US $40 million) to develop a Centre for Brain Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He is the donor of the largest philanthropic gift ever received by the 105-year-old institute from an individual.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Jan 31|first1=TNN / Updated|last2=2014|last3=Ist|first3=07:24|title=Infosys co-founder gives IISc Rs 225 crore {{!}} India News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Infosys-co-founder-gives-IISc-Rs-225-crore/articleshow/29621344.cms|access-date=2021-06-13|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> He has contributed an additional Rs. 60 crores (approximately US $10 million) to set up distinguished visiting chairs in Neurocomputing and Data Science at the Indian Institute of Science of Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Technology Madras of Chennai.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Infosys Co-founder Sets Up 3 Chairs at IISc With Rs 10 Crore Corpus|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2015/jun/23/Infosys-Co-founder-Sets-Up-3-Chairs-at-IISc-With-Rs-10-Crore-Corpus-773232.html|access-date=2021-06-13|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>https://joyofgiving.alumni.iitm.ac.in/data/utilreports/Shri-Kris-Report.pdf</ref>

Kris is chairing the governing board of India’s INR 3,660 crore National Mission on Cyber-Physical System Technologies which is overseeing the establishment of 25 hubs related to CPS and allied technologies.

Kris established the Gopalakrishnan – Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT Madras in August 2017, to be able to solve India’s society’s problems by applying the full capabilities of the scientific and technological knowledge of Indian academic institutions through world class innovation and entrepreneurship.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GDC - Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship|url=http://gdc-iitm.org/pages/our-vision|access-date=2021-06-13|website=gdc-iitm.org}}</ref>