Saurabh Agrawal to be Tata Sons CFO

One of the most-successful investment bankers, Saurabh Agrawal, has been named a the new chief financial officer of the Tata Sons, the 100 billion plus salt-to-software conglomerate.

He will join the company with effect from July 2017.

Starting his career in 1995, Agrawal has a sterling record in both strategy and execution covering a wide range of industries. He joins Tata Sons from the Aditya Birla Group, where he was Head of Strategy. Before that, he has been Head of the Corporate Finance Unit of Standard Chartered Bank in India and South Asia, and the Head of the Investment Banking Division in DSP Merrill Lynch.

Welcoming Agrawal, the Chairman of Tata Sons, N. Chandrasekaran, said: “He brings deep capital markets knowledge and valuable cross-industry experience to this critical leadership role in the Tata group. His expertise will help us in driving rigour and synergy in capital allocation decisions, investment management as well as consolidation and optimisation of the group’s business portfolio. We look forward to his contribution in driving financial performance of the group.”

Agrawal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and has a post-graduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.