{"id":1033656,"date":"2026-09-07T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033656"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:13:44","slug":"tata-sons-succession-race-narrows-to-narendran-agrawal-chauhan-emerges-as-dark-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/07\/tata-sons-succession-race-narrows-to-narendran-agrawal-chauhan-emerges-as-dark-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Sons succession race narrows to Narendran, Agrawal; Chauhan emerges as dark horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons, the holding company of the USD 275-billion-plus Tata conglomerate, has narrowed its search for a successor to Chairman N Chandrasekaran to three prominent corporate leaders \u2014 Tata Steel CEO and MD T V Narendran, Tata Sons Executive Director and Group CFO Saurabh Agrawal, and NSE MD and CEO Ashish Chauhan, people familiar with the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>Narendran has emerged as the frontrunner among internal candidates, while Agrawal remains in contention for his investment-banking and capital-allocation experience. Chauhan, a veteran of India&#8217;s capital markets and one of the founding executives of the National Stock Exchange, has emerged as the potential dark horse, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons, the holding company of the USD 275-billion-plus Tata conglomerate, has narrowed its search for a successor to Chairman N Chandrasekaran to three prominent corporate leaders \u2014 Tata Steel CEO and MD T V Narendran, Tata Sons Executive Director and Group CFO Saurabh Agrawal, and NSE MD and CEO Ashish Chauhan, people familiar with the matter said. Narendran has emerged as the frontrunner among internal candidates, while Agrawal remains in contention for his investment-banking and capital-allocation experience. Chauhan, a veteran of India&#8217;s capital markets and one of the founding executives of the National Stock Exchange, has emerged as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033683,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033656\/revisions\/1033683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}