S hapoor Mistry is an Indian-born Irish businessman and the chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a 150-plus-year-old construction and engineering conglomerate. He is the elder son of the late Pallonji Mistry, who was the patriarch of the family for many decades. The Mistry family's fortune is rooted in two main assets: the privately held SP Group and a substantial, multi-billion-dollar stake in Tata Sons, the holding company of the giant Tata Group.

Shapoor Mistry, along with his late younger brother Cyrus Mistry, inherited the family empire. While Cyrus took a more public role, eventually becoming the chairman of Tata Sons (a tenure that ended in a high-profile corporate dispute), Shapoor focused on managing the operations of the core SP Group. He has been responsible for steering the group's diverse businesses, which include construction, real estate, infrastructure, and consumer goods. Following the tragic deaths of his father and brother in 2022, Shapoor has taken on the full leadership role of the family's business interests, overseeing one of India's most storied and influential business dynasties.