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Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani

CEO, Chairman and Managing Director

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Birth & Early Life

  • Mukesh Ambani was born on April 19, 1957. His father Dhirubhai Ambani was then a small businessman who later on rose to become one of the legends of Indian industry.
  • 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 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.
  • 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. Mukesh Ambani was also conferred the Asia Society Leadership Award by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA.

Physical Status

Male

Education

Institution
Degree
Duration
Stanford University
MBA
Late 1970s
Institute of Chemical Technology
Bachelor Chemical Engineering
Early 1970s

careers

Position
Company
Duration
Co-Founder
Epic Television Networks
2014
Chairman
Fortune
2004
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jio Phone
1981
Co-Founder
Reliance Communications

Founder & Managing Director
Reliance Retail

CEO, Chairman and Managing Director
Reliance Industries

Founder
LYF Smart Devices
2015
Founder
Reliance Petroleum

Founder
Jio Payments Bank

Founder
JioMart

Founder & President
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Chairman & MD
Reliance Jio
2019
Owner and Founder
Reliance Digital

Personal Details

Married

Events

Event

  • India Mobile Congress 2019
    Speaker
    New Delhi, Delhi, India, Asia
    Oct 14, 2019

Awards

  • ​Othmer Gold Medal
        By Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2016
  • Foreign associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
        By The National Academy of Engineering in 2016
  • Millennium Business Leader of the Decade
        At India Leadership Conclave & Indian Affairs Business Leadership Awards in 2013
  • Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Science)
        By M. S. University of Baroda in 2010
  • Global Leadership Award
        By The Business Council for International Understanding in 2010
  • 5th-best performing global CEO
        By Harvard Business Review in 2010
  • School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean's Medal
        By The University of Pennsylvania in 2010
  • Businessman of the Year
        By The Financial Chronicle in 2010
  • Business Leader of the Year
        By NDTV India in 2010
  • Global Vision Award at The Awards Dinner
        By Asia Society in 2010
  • Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
        By Ernst & Young India in 2000
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