Cyrus Mistry had an estimated net worth of $29 billion at the time of his death.
A native of Bombay, Maharashtra, Mistry was educated at the prestigious Cathedral & John Connon School in South Mumbai. He then earned a Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering from Imperial College London in 1990 and received International Executive Masters in management from the London Business School in 1996.
Mistry joined the family construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd as a director in 1991. He had been managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company, which is part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, and also chairman of Tata Sons and the Tata Group.
Mistry was the chairperson of Tata Group from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) to not bear the surname Tata.
In a 2013 article, The Economist categorized him as “the most important industrialist in both India and Britain.”
Cyrus Mistry owned an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, through his company, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd.
He died in a road accident on September 4, 2022, at age 54 on the Surya River bridge, Charoti in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.