Entrepreneur - Mukesh Ambani

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Mukesh Ambani ,

Indian entrepreneur , 
Managing Director of Reliance Industries Ltd & Billionaire Business Magnate  ! 

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian Entrepreneur, the largest shareholder, billionaire


business magnate, chairperson and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd. He was the
richest man in Asia until 2020.
He was born on 19th April 1957 in Yemen. His father’s name is Dhirubhai Ambani and his
mother’s name is Kokilaben Ambani.
He has one brother Anil Ambani and two Sisters, Nina Kothari and Dipti Salgaocar. They lived
only briefly in Yamen as Dhirubhai decided to move back to India in 1958.

He wanted to start a trading business for spices and textiles. Until 1970, they lived in a two-
bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai.
Later his father Dhirubhai purchased a 14-floor apartment block called ‘Sea Wind’ in Colaba.

Mukesh Ambani's Education :

He completed his schooling from Hill Grange Highschool at Paddar road, Mumbai. He
completed his BE in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology.

He enrolled for MBA at Stanford University but withdrew in 1980 to help his father build
Reliance. His father Dhirubhai believes thatMukesh Ambani Education:

He completed his schooling from Hill Grange Highschool at Paddar road, Mumbai. He
completed his BE in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology.

He enrolled for MBA at Stanford University but withdrew in 1980 to help his father build
Reliance. His father Dhirubhai believes that real-life skills were harnessed through experience,
not by education ... 

Entrepreneurial Journey :

He started to help Dhirubhai in running family business in 1981. By the time the business also
included products and services in retail and communication industries.

Reliance Jio has earned a top-five spot in the country’s telecommunication services since 2016.

As of 2016, he was ranked 38, and consistently held the title of India’s richest person on Forbes
magazine’s list for the past ten years.

He is the only businessperson on Forbes’s list of world’s most powerful people...


In January 2018, he was ranked 18th wealthiest person in the world by Forbs magazine.
He is also the wealthiest person in the world outside North America and Europe...
He ranked fifth among India’s philanthropists, according to China’s Hurun Research Institute in
2015.
He became the first non-American to become Director of Bank of America...Through Reliance,
he owned Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians.
He is a founder of the Indian Super League, a football league in India. Forbes named him one of
the richest sports owners in 2012.

His residence Antilia Building is one of the world’s most expensive private residences. Its value
reaches $1 billion...! 
Bombay High Court later approved Indian Petrochemical Company Limited in December 2005.

Contributions to Society ;
Mukesh Ambani directed and led the creation of Reliance Petroleum Limited, the world’s
largest petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India.
The refinery had the capacity to produce 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per
year) in 2010.
In December 2013, he announced the possibility of a “collaboration venture” with Bharti
Airtel for a 4G network in India.
In February 2016, he launched jio, its own smartphone brand named LYF. It was India’s
third largest selling mobile phone brand in June 2016.
During the 40th annual general meeting of RIL, he announced bonus shares in the ratio of
1:1. That was the country’s largest bonus issue in India.

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