Meet Speaker-T.V. Mohandas Pai

​Mohandas Pai is the Chairman of Manipal Global Education, was the former CFO and Head – Administration, Education and Research, Financial, Human Resources of Infosys Leadership Institute., Today Mohandas Pai is recognized as one of India’s top start-up evangelists and angel investors, and philanthropists.

Mohandas Pai's notable achievements include: 
  • Board Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
  • Board Member of National Stock Exchange of India
  • Member of the Kelkar Committee, made for reforming direct taxes constituted by the Ministry of Finance, GOI, the Non-Resident Taxation Committee, and the High Powered Committee on eCommerce and Taxation
  • Member of the Empowered Committee for setting up the Tax Information Network of the GOI
  • Works with the Union Government and State governments in the fields of education, IT and business
  • Working with decision makers to improve the quality of education and availability of skilled manpower
  • Served on the Board of Trustees under Paul Volcker overseeing the International Accounting Standards Board ––– International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation. The IFRS Foundation and the IASB were established in 2001 in order to develop a single set of high quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted financial reporting standards based upon clearly articulated principles.
  • Brain behind the instituting of “Employee Stock Option Plan” (ESOP) that enabled Infosys employees to be a part of, and consequently share in, the company’s wealth. It was one of the largest stock option schemes in the country. The stock option plan was such that even the Supreme Court ruled that no tax should be payable on the gains that people made.
  • Board Member of CSIR-Tech Private Limited, and Havells India Limited, one of the largest Indian consumer electrical’s company

Mohandas Pai is the co-founder of the one of world’s largest midday meal program, Akshaya Patra Foundation and is also one of the producers of an animated Sanskrit movie, Punyakoti too.

AWARDS
  • Padma Shri Award, the fourth highest civilian award in India by the President of India (2015)
  • Karnataka Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka (2004)
  • Best CFO in India by AsiaMoney (2004) and by Finance Asia (2002)
  • CFO Of The Year by IMA India (2001)