Harish Manwani, pitted for post of chairman for Tata Sons, says SkyNews

MUMBAI: Former Unilever COO, Harish Manwani is one of the candidates for the post of Tata Sons’ chairman reports news channel Sky News. It says ‘the former chief operating officer of the Dove-to-Marmite consumer goods giant, is being lined up as a possible successor to Cyrus Mistry, who was ousted last month, after a bitter row over his stewardship of India's best-known company’.

Manwani , has worked with Unilever for 38 years in various senior general management positions including overseeing the company's businesses in Latin America, North American and Asia. He retired last year as their COO to join investment major Blackstone as a global executive advisor.

The Tata group on 24th October removed its chairman Cyrus Mistry and made Ratan Tata the interim chairman. The group had then stated that within 4 months they would announce a new chairman to lead the oldest business house in India.