Noel Naval Tata (born 1957) is an Irish businessman. He is the chairman of the

Tata Trusts Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) was founded in 1919 with a sum of Indian currency 8 million. It was under the Ownership of Ratan Tata until his death. Noel Tata was appointed as the Chairman of the Tata Trusts on 11 October 2024, post the demise o ...

, Trent and Tata Investment Corporation, the managing director of Tata International, and the vice chairman of

Titan Company Titan Company Limited is an Indian company that mainly manufactures fashion accessories such as jewellery, watches and eyewear. Part of the Tata Group and started as a joint venture with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, TIDCO, th ...

and

Tata Steel Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, with its primary operations based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel ...

. On 11 October 2024, following the death of his half-brother

Ratan Tata Ratan Naval Tata (28 December 1937 9 October 2024) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012 and he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to Feb ...

, Noel Tata was appointed as a chairman of the

that holds a 66% stake in

Tata Sons Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. is the holding company of the Tata Group, headquartered in Mumbai. It owns the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants, and derives its reve ...

, the parent company of the

Tata Group The Tata Group () is an Indian multinational conglomerate group of companies headquartered in Mumbai. Established in 1868, it is India's largest business conglomerate, with products and services in over 160 countries, and operations in 100 c ...

that holds the bulk of shares of the Group.

Early life

Part of the

Tata family The Tata family is an Indian business family, based in Mumbai, India. The parent company is Tata Sons, which is the main holding company of the Tata Group. About 65% of the stock in these companies is owned by various Tata family charitable trust ...

, he is the son of Naval Tata and

Simone Tata Simone Naval Tata () is an Indian businesswoman, and a member of the Tata family. Simone Tata was born in 1930, and brought up in Geneva, Switzerland and graduated from Geneva University. She visited India as a tourist in 1953, where she met ...

. He is the half-brother of Ratan Tata, the ex-chairman of the Tata Group, and Jimmy Tata. Tata earned a bachelor's degree from the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, and attended the International Executive Programme at

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

business school in France.

Career

He began his career at Tata International, the Tata Group's arm for products and services offered abroad. In June 1999, he became the managing director of the Group's retail arm Trent, which was founded by his mother. By this time, Trent had acquired the department store Littlewoods International and changed its name to Westside. Tata developed Westside, turning it into a profitable venture. In 2003, he was appointed the director of

Titan Industries Titan Company Limited is an Indian company that mainly manufactures fashion accessories such as jewellery, watches and eyewear. Part of the Tata Group and started as a joint venture with TIDCO, the company has its corporate headquarters in E ...

and of

Voltas Voltas Limited is an Indian multinational home appliances company, headquartered in Mumbai. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including air conditioners, air coolers, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, micro ...

. In 2010, it was announced that Tata was to become managing director of Tata International, the company dealing with the overseas business of the $70 billion conglomerate, raising speculation that he was being groomed to succeed Ratan Tata as head of the Tata Group. However, in 2011, his brother-in-law

Cyrus Mistry Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (4 July 1968 – 4 September 2022) was an Indian-born Irish billionaire businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, ...

was announced as Ratan Tata's successor . In October 2016, Mistry was removed as the chairman of Tata Sons and Ratan Tata took over as the chairman of the group for four months until February 2017. Noel Tata was made vice chairman of

in 2018, and in February 2019 was inducted onto the board of the

Sir Ratan Tata Trust Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) was founded in 1919 with a sum of Indian currency 8 million. It was under the Ownership of Ratan Tata until his death. Noel Tata was appointed as the Chairman of the Tata Group#Tata Trusts, Tata Trusts on 11 October ...

. On 29 March 2022, he was appointed vice chairman of

Personal life and family

He is married to Aloo Mistry, the daughter of

Pallonji Mistry Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (1 June 1929 – 28 June 2022) was an Irish billionaire businessman of Indian descent. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group. Earl ...

, who was the single largest shareholder in Tata Sons (the Tata Group's holding company). They have three children, Leah, Maya and Neville. Their eldest daughter, Leah, earned a Master’s degree in Marketing from

IE Business School IE Business School is a graduate and undergraduate business school, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1973 under the name Instituto de Empresa (lit. Institute of Business) and is part of IE University since 2007. IE Business School is ...

in Madrid and is a vice-president at the

Indian Hotels Company Limited The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) is an Indian hospitality company that manages a portfolio of hotels, resorts, jungle safaris, palaces, spas and in-flight catering services. The company is part of India's Tata Group. IHCL was founded in ...

, a Tata hospitality arm. Their second daughter, Maya, started her education at

Bayes Business School Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City St George's, University of London, located in St Luke's, London, St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966. Bayes ...

in London and

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, worked as an analyst at

Tata Capital Tata Capital Limited is an Indian financial and investment services company, based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of Tata Sons and has more than 700 branches across the country. The firm offers consumer loans, wealth management, commercial fin ...

, and is a board member of the Tata Medical Center Trust. Their son, Neville, also an alumnus of Bayes Business School and an MBA graduate from

, began his career with

Trent Limited Trent Limited (portmanteau of Tata Retail Enterprise) is an Indian retail company, which is part of the Tata Group and based in Mumbai. Started in 1998, Trent owns and operates fashion and lifestyle retail formats such as Westside, Zudio and ...

, the main retail arm of Tata, and later led Zudio operations, before heading the Star Bazaar. He is an Irish citizen.

References

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1957 births Living people Tata Group people Mistry family Alumni of the University of Sussex