Ratan Tata was amongst India’s most revered industralists, who took the Tata Group to new heights
New Delhi:
As tributes poured in to honour legendary industrialist Ratan Tata, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took to social media to recollect his “enterprise and philanthropic legacy”.
Recalling his interplay with Mr Tata, Mr Pichai stated the Tata Group Chairman Emeritus “deeply cared about making India higher”. He stated they talked about Google’s autonomous driving expertise Waymo and his imaginative and prescient was “inspiring to listen to”. He added that the 86-year-old was ” instrumental in mentoring and creating the fashionable enterprise management in India”.
Amongst different enterprise leaders who remembered him have been Chairman of the Mahindra Group Anand Mahindra and RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka.
Mr Tata, the previous Tata Group chairman who remodeled a staid group into India’s largest and most influential conglomerate, breathed his final at south Mumbai’s Breach Sweet Hospital at 11.30 pm on Wednesday.
My final assembly with Ratan Tata at Google, we talked concerning the progress of Waymo and his imaginative and prescient was inspiring to listen to. He leaves a rare enterprise and philanthropic legacy and was instrumental in mentoring and creating the fashionable enterprise management in India. He deeply…
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 9, 2024
He was born on December 28, 1937 in Mumbai. Educated at Cornell College, Ithaca, New York, the veteran industrialist labored on the store ground on the family-run group after returning to India in 1962. He gained expertise in a number of Tata Group corporations earlier than being named director in command of one in all them, the Nationwide Radio and Electronics Co. in 1971.
He grew to become chairman of Tata Industries a decade later and in 1991 took over because the chairman of the Tata Group from his uncle, JRD, who had been in cost for greater than half a century.
Below his stewardship, the conglomerate launched into a large growth drive, snapping iconic British property together with steelmaker Corus and luxurious carmaker Jaguar Land Rover. Its two-and-half-dozen listed corporations now make espresso and automobiles, salt and software program, metal and energy, run airways and launched India’s first tremendous app.
After his retirement in 2012, he was appointed Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.
Mr Tata was the Chairman of Ratan Tata Belief and Dorabji Tata Belief, two of the most important private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India.
He was honoured with the nation’s second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2008.