Anil Ambani
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| Born | 4 June 1959 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Warwick Business School The Wharton School |
| Occupation | Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group |
| Net worth |  $5.2 billion (2012)[1] |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Spouse(s) | Tina Ambani |
| Children | 2[2] |
| Parents | Dhirubhai Ambani Kokilaben Ambani |
| Relatives | Mukesh Ambani (Brother) |
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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: અનીલ ધીરજલાલ (ધીરૂભાઈ) અંબાણી), born on 4 June 1959, is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates in India. Anil's elder brother Mukesh Ambani, who heads as the chairman of Reliance Industries.[3] The Ambani family is the richest family in India and one of the richest in the world, their wealth inherited from Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of largest Indian conglomerate Reliance Group.[4] He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.[citation needed] He is a member of the Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. In March 2006, he resigned. He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.[5]
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Career [edit]
Ambani joined Reliance Industries, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets.[citation needed] For example, he led India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997 being the high point, after which people regarded him as a financial wizard[citation needed]. He along with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power, and telecom company.([citation needed])[citation needed] He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh Bachchan and Subrata Roy. One of his major achievements in the entertainment industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns India's only dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million with Steven Spielberg.[6]
Awards and recognition [edit]
- Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.[citation needed]
==Personal LiFernandes, Kymberlee (15 August 2011). "India's Young Billionaire Heirs". Retrieved 8 July 2012. Text " Luxpresso.com " ignored (help); Text " Page 4" ignored (help)</ref> He has taken part in the Mumbai Marathon race. Ambani is also a fan of Premier League club, Newcastle United and was extremely close to buying the club in September 2008. In June 2004, Anil was elected as an Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha - upper house of the Parliament of India. He is a vegetarian.[7]
Bibliography [edit]
- Yogesh Chabria, Happionaire's Cash The Crash. CNBC - Network18. ISBN 978-81-906479-5-3 - 2009
References [edit]
- ^ [1] Forbes.com. Retrieved April 2013.
- ^ "India Today 2005 Power List". Indiatoday.com. 2005-02-21. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
- ^ Forbes http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires#p_1_s_arank_-1__66
|url=missing title (help). - ^ Gayatri, R Shah (22 October 2010). "Ambani & Sons': The story of India's richest family". CNNGO.
- ^ "Management". Daiict.ac.in. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/sep/02/slide-show-1-indias-most-admired-business-leaders.htm#17
- ^ "On billionaire row, it's simple, veggie fare". Times of India. Sep 28, 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
External links [edit]
- Profile at Reliance ADAG
- Profile at Forbes
- Anil Ambani collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Anil Ambani collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
- Anil Ambani collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Anil Ambani: collected news and commentary at The Times of India
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