on 2 July 1981 by seven entrepreneurs, who are N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K Dinesh, Ashok Arora, and with N. S. Raghavan officially being the first employees of the company. Infosys Technologies were listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange in year 1999. It was the first India registered company to become listed on an American stock exchange and this enabled it to institute an employee stock option plan through the use of American Depository