Mohandas Pai resigns from Infosys Headlines Today I

n a setback to IT giant Infosys, the company's director in-charge of human resource department Mohandas Pai has resigned from its board.

Mohandas Pai

His resignation comes into effect from June 11, 2011. According to sources, Pai had made his intentions clear sometime last year that he would not like to continue once N.R. Narayana Murthy leaves the organisation.

It was in this context that the proposal to make him the company's chief operating officer (COO) came up. According to sources, Pai had reservations about reporting to present COO S.D. Shibulal.

Murthy, the chairman and chief mentor of Infosys, retires in August 2011 and the company's board of directors are scheduled to meet on April 30 to finalise plans for its leadership thereafter.

Pai was prepared to report to Nilekani and Gopalkrishnan as chief executive officers (CEO) but not to Shibulal. The Infosys chief reacted with sorrow to the development.

"Mohan has been an early adopter and a keen anchor builder of Infosys. It is difficult to imagine Infosys without Mohan's passion, commitment, joie-de-vivre and intellect. We all know that he is taking this painful decision, since he has much bigger projects in the horizon. We thank Mohandas Pai for his wonderful contribution and wish him great success in his future endeavours," Murthy said in his farewell note.