Anil Ambani Biography
Anil Ambani is an Indian business man and Chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. He has one elder brother Mukesh Ambani who owns another company called Reliance Industries. Anil Ambani is the fourth richest man in India next only to Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal and Azim Premji.
He was born on 4th June 1959. He joined Reliance, the company founded by his father Dhirubhai Ambani in the year 1983 as the Co-Chief Executive Officer. He could raise around 2 billion dollars from overseas financial markets and he emerged as a greatest financial wizard. His group of companies has placed its footsteps in many fields like textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, and power and telecom industry. Amitabh Bachchan and Subrata Roy are his close friends.
Takeover of Adlabs, the movie production and distribution company that owns India’s only dome theatre is considered to be one of his major achievements. He has announced a joint venture with Steven Spielberg worth 825 million US dollars. He is involved in a dispute with his brother over the supply of gas from KG Basin. He is in the biggest loser list losing 32 billion dollars in the late 2000 recession.
He is a Gujarati and married Bollywood Actress Tina Munim. He has two sons Anmol and Anshul. In 2004 he was elected as the member of the Rajya Sabha. He owns a 13 seat helicopter which he purchased in 2001. He is a suspect in the 2G spectrum scam and was interrogated by the CBI.
He serves as a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Member of the Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT, Gandhi Nagar.
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Updated: October 16, 2018