bengaluru infosys cofounder nandan nilekani is learnt to be playing an active role behind the scenes to try and resolve the infosys imbroglionilekani who recently threw his weight behind the infosys founders in their standoff with the board and management has the credibility and political capital to act as a conduit between the warring board and the foundersnilekani isnt expected to take a formal position in infosys even in a nonexecutive post he has been behind the scenes supporting n r narayana murthy infosyss first ceonr narayana murthy has sought the boards response on former cfo rajiv bansals unusually high severance pay murthy and some of the other cofounders had objected to the steep compensation increases granted to former ceo vishal sikka and former coo u b pravin rao murthy feels the board hascompromised the values of the company nilekani had been an adviser to murthy in the past on issues concerning the founders but has chosen to stay away from the public glare in acknowledging his role in defusing the promoterboard tussle