Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani turns 66 today, on April 19, 2023. He was born on April 19, 1957, in Yemen to...
Digital Desk: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani turns 66 today, on April 19, 2023. He was born on April 19, 1957, in Yemen to Dirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani. His father, Dhirubhai Ambani, created Reliance Industries in 1966. Mukesh and his younger brother Anil jointly took over Reliance's leadership after Dhirubhai passed away in 2002. While his elder brother took over as chairman and managing director, Anil was assigned as vice chairman and joint managing director. However, the brothers fought over control, resulting in split, with Mukesh obtaining control of the gas, oil, and petrochemical industries as RIL, and Anil gaining control of the telecommunications, power generation, and financial services units via a demerger. In his succession plan for Reliance Industries Ltd. last year, Mukesh Ambani named his twins Akash and Isha for leadership in the telecom and retail sectors, and his youngest son Anant for the new energy unit.
In 2007, Mukesh Amani became the country's first trillionaire. In recent months, he lost the title of richest Indian to a fellow Gujarati billionaire, Gautam Adani. However, he reclaimed his position as Asia's richest person on the Forbes Billionaires 2023 list, which was issued on April 4.
On his 66th birthday, here are 5 interesting facts about Mukesh Ambani:
1. Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and CEO of Reliance Industries, a $104 billion (revenue) company with holdings in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecommunications, and retail. According to Forbes, his net worth is $84.1 billion, making him the world's 13th richest billionaire.
2. Mukesh Ambani was born in Aden, Yemen, where his father worked as a petrol station attendant. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bombay (now the University of Mumbai) and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University. However, he left the program in 1981 to join the family business, as where he worked to broaden the business by entering into communications, infrastructure, petrochemicals, petroleum refining, polyester fibers, and oil and gas production.
3. Mukesh Ambani owns the 27-story Antilla, which is among the world's most costly residential spaces. The building has, technically, 60 floors. The bottom six floors of his Antilia are allocated for parking his expensive cars, which include the Maybach, Rolls Royce Cullinan, BMW 760 Li, and others.
4. Apart from that, he owns a grand, luxurious hotel named Mandarin Oriental in New York, which is a 900-year-old hotel in London. He is also well-known for having a collection of ultra-luxurious private jets. He has a total of three private jets. The three jets, the Airbus A319, the Falcon 900EX, and the Boeing Business Jet, are all expected to cost roughly Rs 100 crore. Despite his wealth, it is believed that Ambani is a very modest man who loves eating clean vegetarian food that is cooked at home.
5. He was placed second in the world's top CEOs list by the Global Brand Guardianship Index 2023 and was also named the fifth best-performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review. Mukesh Ambani has also received the Iconic Business Leader of the Decade Award in 2020, the TIME 100 Most Influential People Award in 2019, and the Businessman of the Year Award in 2010.
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