Alan Rosling, executive director of Tata Sons one of the key players who spearheaded the group's global acquisitions, is leaving the company on March 31, when his contract with the group ends. According to a Tata Sons spokesperson: "It was decided by mutual agreement that Alan's contract would not extend beyond 31st March 2009".
Rosling is also a director of Tata AutoComp Systems and Tata International.
From 1998 to 2003, Mr Rosling was chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in India. Before joining Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, he was with United Distillers plc, where he was strategy development director. Mr Rosling was also managing director of Concorde Motors, a joint venture between Jardine Motors and the Tata group, prior to the sale of the Jardine stake to the Tatas in 2002. Between 1991 and 1993, Mr Rosling was special advisor to the British Prime Minister, John Major, and a member of the policy unit at No 10 Downing Street. Before that he was chief executive of Piersons, a division of Courtaulds Textiles plc. Mr Rosling started his career in 1983 as an investment banker, with SG Warburg & Co.
Mr Rosling was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he took a first in history. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in 1986 to go to the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker scholar.
