Cyrus Mistry

Cyrus Pallonji Mistry was born on 4 July 1968 is a businessman who became chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, on 28 December 2012. He is the sixth chairman of the group and the second not to be named Tata, after Nowroji Saklatwala.Mistry studied at the Cathedral & John Connon School in Mumbai. He graduated from the Imperial College, London with a BEng in civil engineering and holds a Master of Science in management from the London Business School. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Mistry has been managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company, which is part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. He joined the board of Tata Sons on 1 September 2006, a year after his father retired from it. He served as a Director of Tata Elxsi Limited, from 24 September 1990 to 26 October 2009 and was a Director of Tata Power Co. Ltd until 18 September 2006.

In 2012, Mistry was appointed as the chairman of Tata Sons. In addition, he is also chairman of all major Tata companies including Tata Industries, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Teleservices, Indian Hotels, Tata Global Beverages and Tata Chemicals.

In 1991, he joined the board of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company as director and was later appointed the managing director of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group in 1994. At the time, his father was the chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and also sat on the board of the Tata Group.

From 1990 to 2009, he served as the Director of Tata Elxsi Limited. He also served as the Director of Tata Power Co. Ltd until 2006.

He was associated with Convergence Media Private Limited India, as Senior Vice President of Operations and Planning. He also served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Technology at DQ Entertainment (International) Limited.

On September 1, 2006, he joined the board of Tata Sons, after one year of his father’s retirement from the Tata Group. He was named director of several Tata companies in addition to his duties with the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. In November 2011, after being appointed as the deputy chairman of the Tata Group, he resigned from Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. It was also announced that he would take over as the Chairman one year later, upon the retirement of Ratan Tata.

He has been the additional director of the Indian Hotels Company Limited since November 2012 and was appointed as its Non-Executive Chairman in December 2012.

TATA GROUPThe Tata group’s core purpose is to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with trust.

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise headquartered in India, and comprises over 100 operating companies, with operations in more than 100 countries across six continents, exporting products and services to over 150 countries. The revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $108.78 billion (around Rs665,185 crore) in 2014-15, with 68 percent of this coming from businesses outside India. Tata companies employ over 611,700 people worldwide.

He is a trustee of the Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai, and a member of the Construction Federation of India. He is also on the board of Imperial College India Foundation.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

• The Economist has described him as "the most important industrialist" in both India and Britain.