Infosys' search for its fifth chief executive officer—who will also be its first non-founder CEO—is limited to those working in the information technology services sector, people aware of the plan said, which means only a handful of IT industry veterans will be in contention for the job. India's secondlargest software company is in no mood to risk hiring a CEO from outside the IT services space because the industry is a specialised one and the learning curve steep, one of those with knowledge of Infosys' thinking said. "Now it could be from engineering or sales but from IT services only."

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