N V Sathyanarayana is a former librarian, Information Entrepreneur and Information Services and Products Developer rolled into one. He is the Founder Director of Informatics India Ltd – a leading Information Products and Services Company, established in 1980. Currently, he is the Chairman and Managing Director of Informatics. He started his career as a librarian and worked in different institutions and agencies such as the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, HMT, SKF for seven years before promoting his brainchild Informatics. Informatics pioneered the introduction of International online database access in 1984. First to introduce and market CD-ROM technology products in India in 1988. Sathya is also associated with many a professional/academic activities in the information profession. He served as a member on the “Working Group on Content Creation and Content Industry” of The National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development set up by the Office of the Prime Minister of India. – May 1998; Member of Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of the NISSAT sponsored project entitled “Establishment of the Vigyan Server and Internet School at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Member of Board of Studies, Information Science, SNDT Women’ s University, Mumbai ; Member of Governing Council for Centre for Information Science and Technology, (CIST), Mysore ; Honorary Visiting Professor in the Dept of Studies in Library & Information Sciences, University of Mysore, Mysore.; editorial board of CD-ROMs in Print(Meckler Publishing, UK) for two years – 1990 and 1991. He is the Recipient of Young Information Scientist award in 1991 by the Society for Information Science (India). Sathya organised the International Information Industry conference, INFOTEX’93 the first of its kind from India – for the Society for Information Science, sponsored by NIC, DST, DBT, UNESCO, The Hindu and many international companies like Chemical Abstracts