CYRUS MISTRY

Sept. 5, 2022

Cyrus P. Mistry, industrialist and former chairman of Tata Sons, was killed in a road accident about 150 km from Mumbai when the car he was travelling in hit a road divider.

About:

  • Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (1968 – 2022) was an Indian-born Irish businessman. He was the former chairperson of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016.
  • He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) not to bear the surname Tata.
  • In October 2016, the board of Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, voted to remove Mistry from the post of chairman. Former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was named as the new chairman a few months later.
  • He owned an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, through his company, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd.
Source : The Hindu