: Cyrus Mistry (1968-2022): How the outsider was chosen to lead the Tata Group when Rata Tata retired #IndiaNEWS The committee asked Cyrus Mistry to become a candidate. At first he refused. A little

Cyrus Mistry (1968-2022): How the outsider was chosen to lead the Tata Group when Rata Tata retired #IndiaNEWS
The committee asked Cyrus Mistry to become a candidate. At first he refused. A little later when the search still came up short, Mistry was sounded again. He consulted his father, Pallonji Mistry, and others in the family and ‘reluctantly’ entered the race. The forty- four-year-old dropped out of the selection committee and served himself up for assessment. In October 2010, he was fielding questions from the selection committee like any candidate would.In Mumbai parlance, Mistry was a true ‘townie’. He went to the prestigious Cathedral and John Connon School in South Mumbai. He was known to be less flamboyant than his brother but close to his ‘group of boys’, recall friends and family. He went on to his bachelor’s in civil engineering at Imperial College, London, and a master’s in management at the London Business School. At twenty-three, Mistry joined the family construction business. Three years later, in 1994, he became the MD of Shapoorji Pallonji’s flagship construction company. Mistry extended his company’s product portfolio from construction to design and delivery of residential projects as well as projects in specialised sectors such as oil and railways. He also expanded his business internationally. In Cyrus Mistry’s words, ‘Shapoorji Pallonji is a company...Read more

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