ANIL AMBANI

YOUTH ICON
“Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will
power, discipline one's body and train one's mind”.
 • Anil Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian business baron and
chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

•As of 2010, he is the fourth richest Indian with a personal

wealth of $13.7 billion, behind Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi
Mittal and Azim Premji.

• 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. 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.

• He studied up to Bachelors degree commerce as major.

 CAREER
• Ambani joined Reliance, 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. 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.

• 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

• He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who
lost money in the Late 2000s recession , losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought him out
of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.
 Awards and Recognition
• Voted the 3rd most powerful person in India in the 2009 India Today
Power List, in March.

• Voted Businessman of the Year 2006 by Times of India-TNS poll

• Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy
Awards for 2004.

• Voted as 'MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2003' in September 2003.

• Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay

Management Association, October 2002.

• Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India
Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the
establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business
areas, December 2001.

• Conferred the ' Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading
business magazine Business India, December 1997.
 PERSONAL LIFE
Anil Ambani is Gujarati Indian. He is married to Indian
Bollywood Actress Tina Munim and has two sons Anmol and
Anshul. He has taken part in the Mumbai Marathon race.
Ambani is also a fan of Coca-Cola Championship 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,
Parliament of India with the support of the Samajwadi Party.
He wakes up daily at 4:00am, checks the news and then goes
for a run.
He drinks 6 litres of water every day and likes to eat Pav Bhaji.
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