A Few Facts On Cyrus Mistry

Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry died in road accident near Mumbai on Sunday. The accident took place around 3.15 pm, when Mistry was travelling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad, said some media reports. Here are a few facts on the former Tata Chiarman:

• He was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016.
• He was the sixth chairman of the group.
• In 2012, he was chosen to head the Tata Group and took charge in December that year.
• In 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.
• Mistry joined the family construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd as a director in 1991.