Foundation to pick young Cyrus Mistry was laid years ago

A quick run through the appointments at the helm of major Tata companies over the past few years would have provided some clues to the kind of successor Ratan Tata was looking for. N Chandrasekaran took over as CEO of IT services giant TCS at 46 in 2009; R Mukundan picked up the reins of Tata Chemicals at 42 in 2008; the same year, Mukund Rajan was appointed head of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) when he was just 40; N Srinath got the top job at Tata Communications in 2007 when he was 45; and three years ago, Brotin Banerjee became CEO of Tata Housing when he was all of 35.

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