Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries
Born: April 19,
1957
Achievement: Chairman 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.
World'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,
