How Infosys regained its mojo, improved employee morale under Salil Parekh

Salil Parekh has brought the company back to a healthy growth trajectory, improved employee morale and won the promoters' trust as well as investor confidence

In 2017, when Infosys announced that Salil Parekh would be its next chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD), very few in the industry or the analyst community doubted his ability to bring the company back to a healthy growth trajectory, improve morale within the company and, more importantly, win the promoters’ trust and investor confidence.

There were reasons for this confidence. He was not only the deputy CEO of the Paris-headquartered IT services major Capgemini, but also one of the only non-European faces on the executive board of the company. European companies are similar to Japanese firms when