Former Infosys CFO and board member TV Mohandas Pai received the Padma Shri award. Additionally, he co-founded Akshaya Patra, the biggest midday meal initiative in the world, and actively collaborates with authorities and the government on proposals for policies.
Mohan has held board positions at SEBI and the National Stock Exchange of India. He has become one of India's greatest investors in technology. Over 14 separate venture, growth, and public market funds were launched with his assistance.
Along with Manipal Group Chairman Ranjan Pai, he also oversees Aarin Capital, an investment firm that makes investments in businesses in the medical sciences, technology, and education sectors. Byju's, Counsyl, ZoomCar, Praxify, YourStory, and Licious are a few of the businesses.
TV Mohandas Pai, who was raised in a middle-class household, rose to prominence as one of India's leading start-up angel investors, and philanthropists. Mohandas graduated from Bangalore University with a bachelor's degree in law and is member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
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From May 2000 to July 2011, Mohandas Pai, who joined Infosys in 1994, was a member of the board. From 1994 to 2006, he served as the company's CFO. He willingly left his position as CFO in 2006 to take the helm of initiatives in the fields of education, and research.
Mohandas was employed at Prakash Leasing in Bangalore as a finance professional for approximately seven years. He was on the verge of leaving the business and relocating abroad. He discovered Infosys contemplating their IPO around that time and decided to dig into it since he analyzed corporate balance sheets and had over 4000 of them as a hobby.
He attended an analyst meeting in Mumbai after attending the Infosys pre-IPO investor conference. He continued by posing some serious inquiries that even the greatest of them found thought-provoking, as per media reports.
Given the information he possessed, Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys, and Narayana Murthy made the decision to enlist Mohandas on their team and persuaded him to join Infosys as a consultant.
