Our Story

Born on August 19, 1950, in Shiggaon, North Karnataka, Smt. Sudha Murty is a renowned author, philanthropist, teacher, engineer, visionary, and a leader. As founder of the Murty Trust, she is dedicated to preserving and celebrating art, cultural heritage, science & research, Indian books & manuscripts, and knowledge systems born out of India. 

Having founded the Infosys Foundation, Smt. Murty has established numerous schools, hospitals, and orphanages across India, impacting the lives of thousands of individuals. Her foremost contribution towards women’s empowerment has been her extensive work with the Devadasi community. The initiative helped rehabilitate and achieve financial independence for more than three thousand Devadasis by providing substitute livelihoods.

Through the years, her efforts have been recognized with many Honorary Doctorates and prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan & Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2023 & 2006 respectively; Sahitya Academy Award in 2023, the R.K. Narayan Award for Literature in 2006 & the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award in 2020.

Rohan Narayan Murty is the founder and CTO of Soroco, an AI company pioneering a new enterprise software category to reshape how organizations get work done. He has a PhD in computer science from Harvard, a BS from Cornell, and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. His research on distributed systems and his thesis on whitespaces networking have won multiple awards and fellowships from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Microsoft Research, Siebel Foundation, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He was also a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which includes among its fellows Nobel laureates Amartya Sen, Wally Gilbert, among others. He was the second computer scientist selected to the society in its 80+ year history, after Marvin Minsky, the father of artificial intelligence.

Rohan is also the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India, a non-profit on a 100+ year mission to showcase Indian classics of the past two millennia to the world. Billed as one of the largest and most complex translation efforts in the world, MCLI has been featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal, among other platforms.

Akshata Murty is the co-founder of The Richmond Project, alongside her husband, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The charity focuses on enabling social mobility throughout the UK by breaking down barriers to numeracy.

She is passionate about education and the power of creativity to have positive effects for young people. During her time living in Downing Street, Akshata launched ‘Lessons at 10’. This initiative provided children from schools across the United Kingdom with a unique opportunity to go behind the famous black door of Number 10 and learn important life lessons from special guests such as the National Theatre, the Young V&A, the Lawn Tennis Association, the London Zoological Society and Historic Royal Palaces.

Akshata spent over a decade investing in early-stage consumer-focused British companies, from e-commerce to apparel to jewellery to heritage craftsmanship, providing funding and strategic advice. Previously, she founded a fashion line that was inspired by and worked with Indian crafts and artisans.

Akshata obtained a B.A in Economics and French from Claremont McKenna College, an MBA from Stanford University Business School as well as an Associate degree from Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Los Angeles. She is on the board of Claremont McKenna College and was previously a Trustee of the San Francisco Exploratorium. Akshata is also a supporter of the Murty Classical Library of India.