THE JOURNEY OF AN EXCELLENT MIND

---- NATARAJAN CHANDRASEKARAN

(Chairman of Tata Sons)

• When Chandra was in the last semester of his post graduate degree in computer science, he was required to do an internship. Hence he applied for an opening at TCS in 1986.
• While Chandra was in second month of his internship at TCS, he was offered  a job as an engineer.
• Since that day, N Chandrasekaran has been at Tata.
• 1990's: Chandrsekaran switched from engineer to management.
• In 1997, headed the sales and marketing departments being at senior level positions.
• In 2008, he became the CEO & MD of TCS.
• In 2017, Chandrasekaran secured the positioned of the chairman of Tata Sons.
• He is the first non-shareholder and non-family chairperson.
• He has never attended a management school.
• He has been a non-official director of RBI since 2016.
•  He belongs to a family of farmers
• Market cap of Tata Group has more than doubled to  $300 billion since Chandrasekaran took over in 2017.
• Tata has deleveraged Rs.29000 crore in debt under Chandra's leadership.
• He increased Tata Son's stakes in some companies.
• His "One Tata" strategy aims to create an Eco system for developing EV's.
• Tata has been focusing alot on digitization and e-commerce lately.