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Personal Profile

Mukesh Ambani
  • Birth Name:
    Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
  • Date of Birth:
    April 19, 1957
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    Colony of Aden, Yemen
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Hinduism
  • Education:
    Abaay Morischa School, Mumbai

    University of Mumbai

    Stanford Business School
  • Address:
    3rd Floor Maker Chambers IV Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 021
  • Phone:
    91 22 2284 7000
  • Fax:
    91 22 2204 2268

Family

Mukesh Ambani
  • Father:
    Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani
  • Mother:
    Kokilaben Ambani
  • Brother:
    Anil Ambani
  • Sister:
    Dipti, Nina
  • Spouse:
    Nita Ambani
  • Son:
    Akash
    Anant
  • Daughter:
    Isha

Career

Mukesh Ambani
  • Profession:
    Businessman
  • Claim to Fame:
    He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company
  • Debut:
    Joined Reliance in 1981

Awards

Mukesh Ambani

Chosen the businessman of the year 2007 by a public poll in India conducted by NDTV.

Conferred the United States-India Business Council (USIBC) leadership award for "Global Vision" 2007 in Washington.

Ranked 42nd among the World's Most Respected Business Leaders and second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and published in Financial Times, London, November 2004.

Conferred the World Communication Award for the Most Influential Person in Telecommunications in 2004 by Total Telecom, October, 2004.

Chosen Telecom Man of the Year 2004 by Voice and Data magazine, September 2004.

Ranked 13th in Asia's Power 25 list of The Most Powerful People in Business published by Fortune magazine, August 2004.

Conferred the Asia Society Leadership Award by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, May 2004.

Ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year, in The Power List 2004 published by India Today, March 2004.

Recorded as the first Trillionaire in India, June 2007.

Awarded the "Chitralekha Person of the Year Award -- 2007" by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Former Chairman of IIM-B.

Honorary Fellow of IChemE (the Institution of Chemical Engineers).

Trivia

Mukesh Ambani
  • He was ramked second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and published in Financial Times, London, November 2004.
  • He was ranked 42nd among the World's Most Respected Business Leaders.
  • World's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar is the brainchild of Mukesh Ambani.
  • His wealth is valued at US$43 billion (according to Forbes), making him the richest man in Asia.
  • His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%.
  • He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company.
  • Mukesh Ambani is the world's fifth richest man with a net worth of approximately $43 billion (as of May 2008 ).
  • Mukesh owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians.
  • Under him Reliance Retail has also launched a new chain called Delight stores and also signed a letter of intent with NOVA Chemicals to make energy-efficient structures for Reliance Retail.
  • Ambani owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians which unfortunately couldn't make it to the finals this year. He has also set up the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai.

Quotes

Mukesh Ambani
  • "We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time."
  • "As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people."
  • "The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
  • "I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."
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Biography

Mukesh Ambani
Last Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009

mukesh ambaniChairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company; Chosen as ET Business Leader of the Year 2006; Ranked 42nd among the World's Most Respected Business Leaders and second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and published in Financial Times, London, November 2004.

Mukesh Ambani is the face of new emerging India. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company.

Mukesh Ambani was born on April 19, 1957 in Mumbai. His father Dhirubhai Ambani was then a small businessman who later on rose to become one of the legends of Indian industry. Mukesh Ambani did his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from University of Bombay and Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University, USA.

Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and was the brain behind Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals. During the process of backward integration, Mukesh Ambani led the creation of 51 new, world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that raised Reliance's manufacturing capacities manifold.

mukesh ambaniWorld's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar is the brainchild of Mukesh Ambani. He was also the incharge of Dhirubhai's dream project Reliance Infocomm. But after the split in the Reliance Empire, Reliance Infocomm went to his brother Anil Ambani. Mukesh Ambani is now planning to enter retail sector in a big way. He has plans to establish big retail stores all over the country. Recently, he also entered into an agreement with Haryana Government to establish a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) with an investment running into thousands of crores.

Mukesh Ambani has many achievements and honours to his name. Mukesh Ambani was chosen as the ET Business leader of the Year 2006. He was ranked 42nd among the World's Most Respected Business Leaders and second among the four Indian CEOs featured in a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and published in Financial Times, London, November 2004.

He was conferred the World Communication Award for the Most Influential Person in Telecommunications in 2004 by Total Telecom, October, 2004. Mukesh Ambani was also conferred the Asia Society Leadership Award by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA,

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