Cyrus Mistry aide Madhu Kannan joins Uber

Kannan will be responsible for growing Uber's business in India and across Asia Pacific region

A little over three months after Cyrus Mistry was removed as chairman of Tata Sons, his close aide in the group Madhu Kannan, 42, is joining San Francisco-based taxi aggregator company Uber as its chief business officer, India and emerging markets. Kannan was part of a core team — group executive council (GEC) — at Tata Sons. The GEC was dismantled after Mistry was removed in a boardroom coup on October 24 last year. 

On Thursday, Uber confirmed in a blog that Kannan was joining the organisation on Friday (February 3). As a key member of Uber’s regional leadership team, Kannan