New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- BENGALURU: Infosys Ltd's Salil Parekh completes eight years as chief executive this month, making him the second-longest serving chief executive at the Bengaluru-based company after co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, who led the firm for 21 years.

Parekh's tenure has spanned multiple inflexion points-from the shift to digital services and the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, to a prolonged slowdown in companies awarding billion-dollar technology deals to IT outsourcers. As the company heads into its December-quarter (Q3FY26) earnings, however, the most consequential test may be how it navigates the rise of automation and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

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