Anil Ambani

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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: ( ) ), born on 4 June 1959, is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates. 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]

Anil Ambani
Born 4 June 1959 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Nationality Indian Alma mater University of Mumbai The Wharton School

Occupation Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Net worth Religion Spouse(s) Children $6 billion (2012)[1] Hinduism Tina Munim 2[2] Dhirubhai Ambani Kokilaben Ambani Mukesh Ambani (Brother) Website Anil Ambani (http://www.relianceadagroup.com/ada/chairman.html)

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1 Career 2 Awards and recognition 3 Personal Life 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External links

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Career

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.[citation needed ] He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of gas from the latter's KG basin.[citation needed ] He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who lost money in the late 2000s