JRD Tata joined the Tata Group as an unpaid trainee
Industrialist JRD Tata entered the family-run company as an unpaid trainee in 1925 and was mentored in business by a former civil servant. At 22, soon after his father's death, JRD was on the board of the group's flagship company, Tata Sons. The business tycoon, who died on 29 November 1993, served as Tata Group's chairman from 1938 till 1991.