Come December 2012, 43-year-old Cyrus Pallonji Mistry will don a new hat, when he succeeds Ratan Tata as the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of over USD 80-billion Tata Group.

From leading the construction-oriented USD 2.5 billion construction giant Shapoorji Pallonji Group as Managing Director, Mistry will be catapulted to a much bigger role--leading the salt-to-software conglomerate that has been rapidly expanding across global markets.

In the pic: Ratan Tata, current chairman of Tata Sons