Natarajan Chandrasekaran will take charge on February 21 as the new chairman of Tata Sons — the holding company of the $116-billion group.
When Cyrus Mistry was ousted from the same position Chandrasekaran will now take over, many names were thrown up as the possible pick for the top job.
From high-profile names like Indra Nooyi, the head of PepsiCo Inc, Arun Sarin, the former head of Vodafone Group, and Noel Tata, chairman of the Tata retail unit Trent, to his contemporaries from the group's companies, like Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) boss Ralf Speth, the verdict was still out on