Infosys Ltd will pay its new chief executive officer Vishal Sikka up to $ 5.08 million (Rs 30 crore) in annual salary besides a stock option of $2 million (Rs 12 crore).
In comparison, Tata Consultancy Services CEO N Chandrasekaran gets a salary of Rs 18.6 crore.
Earlier, there were reports that Infosys may be readying to loosen its purse strings in order to attract the best talent and hold on to whoever takes over from SD Shibulal.
Sikka, 47, will replace SD Shibulal and take charge on August 1.
Infosys has always been headed by former founding members, who have typically settled for a lower salary and remuneration in the form of stock options. In fact, Shibulal even took a pay cut in the 2014 fiscal year to take home a salary of just $26,113 (around Rs 16 lakh).
Interestingly, Stephen Pratt, the former head of utilities and resources for North America who resigned last year, made more than Shibulal and took home a salary of $2.11 million.
Infosys sent out a circular calling for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of company shareholders on July 30 at Bangalore to approve appointment of Sikka as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
According to the circular, Sikka will be paid an annual base salary of $9,00,000 and annual variable pay of $4.18 million.
The former SAP executive will also be eligible to receive an annual stock option equal to $2 million in value.
Globally, Sikka's total compensation package of $7.08 million, including stock options, compares to $18 million Microsoft pays to its chief executive, $16.2 million IBM CEO gets and $14.4 million Citibank CEO receives.
Hit by several top-level exits, Infosys last month undertook a major shake-up bringing in for the first time an outsider, Vishal Sikka, as CEO even as mentor N R Narayana Murthy and his son Rohan stepped down four years ahead of their tenure.
Sikka, 47, who was previously executive board member of German IT firm SAP, will replace S D Shibulal, one of the seven engineers who founded Infosys in 1981, from August 1.
Along with Murthy, who upon return from retirement in June last year wanted five years as chairman to turn around the sagging fortunes of Infosys, Executive Vice Chairman S Gopalakrishnan will also step down on June 14.
Since his return, Infosys had seen 11 top-level exits including that of CFO V Balakrishnan, global manufacturing head Ashok Vemuri and President BG Srinivas. Murthy will be replaced by veteran banker K V Kamath as non-executive Chairman of the Infosys board.
Infosys, in the circular, said Sikka will be appointed for a five year period ending June 13, 2019.
Murthy will be designated chairman emeritus from October 11, the day Kamath will assume the role of non-executive chairman.
Sikka, who quit SAP in May, comes in after four straight years of narrowing margins at Infosys.
A Stanford University computer science Ph.D. graduate, Sikka oversaw the development of new products, including a platform for quickly analysing large databases, as chief technology officer at SAP, the world's largest maker of business-management software.
With inputs from PTI
With inputs from PTI
firstpost
No comments:
Post a Comment