Govind Sankaranarayanan exits from Tata Capital

After working for over two decades Govind quits from Tata Capital as COO.

Former COO exits Tata Capital after putting up on his papers.


Govinds plan is to look at the opportunities in private equity and social impact service. 


Govind was appointed to be incharge as CEO but later Praveen Kadle took other responsibilities in group.



Successor of Govind is an outsider Rajiv Sabharwal, as Tata Capital’s chief executive by the group chairman. 


Govind is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School and even helped cofound Tata Capital in 2007. A Tata Administrative Services talent, he served as chief of staff of Krishna Kumar at Tata Tea and worked closely with Ratan Tata in Tata Industries where he was involved in the formation of joint ventures. He played a key role during the finance and integration role at the UK-based Tetley Group in 2000. Later, he went onto become the executive director and chief financial officer of VSNL International, based in the US.