Mukesh Ambani (born on April 19, 1957, in Yemen) is the Chairman, Managing Director and the biggest Shareholder of Reliance Industries Restricted – India’s Largest Personal Sector Firm; he can also be the Chairman of a Reliance Retail Limited; a Director of Reliance Europe Restricted, and Pratham India Education Initiative.
– Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani are sons of Late Dhirubhai Ambani, the founding father of Reliance Industries; but after his father’s death the corporate was split between the 2 brothers. His youthful brother heads Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
– He completed his education from St. Xavier’s Highschool in Mumbai; his Chemical Engineering from College of Mumbai and Masters in Enterprise Administration from Stanford University however dropped out after first 12 months and joined Reliance in 1981.
– He’s married to Nita Ambani and they’ve three children: – Akash, Isha and Anant.
– He founded the world’s largest grassroots Petroleum Refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India; the refinery has a capability of 6, 60,000 barrels per day, about 33 million tons per 12 months.
– He initiated Reliance’s backward integration from Textiles into Polyester fibers and then into Petroleum refining, oil and gasoline exploration and production; he was the founder of Reliance Infocomm Restricted which is now often called Reliance Communication Restricted.
– According to Forbes, as of Could 2008, his complete web worth is valued at US$forty three Billion; he is the richest man in Asia and fifth in the world; his complete annual compensation as of 2008 was 6,000,000INR. He is associated to 167 board members in 7 different organizations across 3 totally different industries.
