Salil Parekh

On 12 November 2019 an allegation was made by one of the finance staff of Infosys that CEO is residing in hometown Mumbai though he needs to report to Head office located at Bengaluru. As Mr Parekh did not relocate to Bengaluru even after he was given two months to do so and was visiting the tech hub twice a month, the techie said the company had incurred Rs. 22 lakh towards his airfare and local transportation. “Four business class tickets per month plus home to airport drop in Mumbai, airport pick-up in Bengaluru and drop on the return journey,” alleged the whistleblower.

Salil Parekh is the current chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys. Parekh took over from interim CEO U B Pravin Rao on 2 January 2018. Prior to this appointment Parekh was previously member of the group management board at Capgemini, where he had worked since 2000, after Ernst & Young’s consultancy division, where he had been working before, was merged into the company. Most recently, he was member of the group executive board, and was appointed deputy CEO in March 2015. He was responsible for overseeing a business cluster comprising Application Services and Cloud Infrastructure Services among others.