Chennai: Phaneesh Murthy, who had quit Infosys board while serving as head of the company's global sales and marketing in the wake of a harassment suit filed by a woman employee, has joined the board of Chennai based Futuresoft, a leading player in the communications and embedded software solutions space.

Announcing Murthy's induction as a non-executive member of the board, K V Ramani, chairman and managing director of FutureSoft told reporters that Murthy's induction was part of FutureSoft's strategy to define a new blueprint for the company's plans to make major inroads into the global market of telecom products and solutions mainly in the broadband access space.

Murthy, currently heading the United States based Primentor, an Information Technology (IT) consultancy firm floated by him after his exit from Infosys, said he was elated at being in the board of FutureSoft, which he said was poised for a very significant growth in the global telecom market due to its strong intellectual property rights (IPRs) base in the field.

Asked about the lawsuit filed against him, he said the proceedings were still on and could not say when it would be over.

PTI