Rohan Murthy joined Infosys as an executive to his father NR Narayana Murthy, the company's CEO, However, his role was deemed to be important that made him took a seat as the company's Vice President. This was according to people who were familiar with development at Infosys.

The senior position where Rohan Murty was designated was usually given to candidates with more than a decade's experience in a running a company. This was according to one source that was familiar with the development in the company. Another source confirmed the designation that was given a few weeks ago.

Infosys did not respond to inquiries until Friday evening.

Rohan obtained his PHd from Harvard University. He worked for his father's private equity fund, Catamaran, and has been very active since his job as an executive assistant at Infosys. Rohan accompanies Narayana to all important meetings and would assume lead role once the meeting discussed technology aspects, said source to ET NOW.