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Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
Born Residence Ethnicity Education
June 4, 1959 (1959-06-04) Mumbai, India Mumbai, India Gujarati Bombay University Bachelor of Arts/Science Wharton School MBA [1] Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ▼ US$10.1 billion (2009) Hindu Tina Munim Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul [1]
Occupation Net worth Religious beliefs Spouse(s) Children
Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian billionaire and a major shareholder in Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. His older brother, Mukesh Ambani is also a billionaire, who owns another company called Reliance Industries.
Career
Ambani joined Reliance, 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. 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. 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. Anil was the member of Uttar Pradesh Development Council (this council has now been scrapped). He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar and a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is member of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also a member of the Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. In June 2004, Anil was elected as an Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha - Upper House, Parliament of India with the support of the Samajwadi Party. In March 2006, he resigned. In 2007 his name was added to the list of Indian Trillionaires (in terms of Indian Rupee). He has been linked with several starlets in his long career including his current wife of more than 15 years. He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh Bachchan. One of his major achievements in the entertainment industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns Mumbai’s only dome theatre. He recently topped Business Sheet’s "world’s biggest loser" list of business leaders who lost money in the Late 2000s recession [2], losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought him out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.
Awards and Recognition
• Voted the 3rd most powerful person in India in the 2009 India Today Power List, in March. [2] • Voted Businessman of the Year 2006 by Times of India-TNS poll [3]
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• Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards for 2004. • Voted as ’MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2003’ in September 2003. • Conferred ’The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award’ by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002. • Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001. • Conferred the ’ Businessman of the Year 1997’ award by India’s leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.
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created a flutter, lending credence to Anil Ambani’s charge that certain ’rival business groups were trying to eliminate him’. " [6][7] Airworks India Engineering Pvt. Ltd., the company that maintains the helicopter filed a case against one of its own employees for putting mud and pebbles into the gear box. The post-mortem conducted on Bharat Borge revelated that he died of shock due to multiple fractures, resulting in brain haemorrhage.[5] There was also a letter found in his pocket written in marathi saying "I haven’t done anything wrong. That day, some Reliance people came and spoke to me. I didn’t tell them anything. One of them took my number and said that he’ll talk to me later. I felt they were using me. I am writing this letter after thinking all night. It looks like the blame will be on me. I think the investigation is on the right track and truth will emerge soon."
Personal Life
Mr Anil Ambani runs 18km daily, to keep fit.[4] He also takes part in the Mumbai Marathon.
Food
He likes to eat Kesar pista ice cream. [3]
Criticism and allegations
Involvement in Notes-for-Vote scandal
Further information: Notes-for-Vote scandal and 2008 Lok Sabha Vote of Confidence Prominent British think-tank Oxford Analytica quotes[8]: “ "When four Marxist parties forced a confidence vote (held on July 22) by withdrawing their support over the issue of a nuclear energy deal with the US, Anil played an important role in securing the requisite backing to keep the government intact -- at a cost estimated at some three million dollars per vote," it added. "Where the SP’s rapprochement with the ruling Congress Party will leave Mukesh and the older Reliance Industries is now a matter of open conjecture." Since July 7, when it became clear that Amar Singh, who is considered to be close to Anil Ambani, and his Samajwadi Party (SP) would support the government, the market capitalisation of Anil’s holdings in six companies increased by 24% to Rs 1,41,415 crore. That means, he ”
Travel
He has a Bell 412 13-seat helicopter. Which he purchased in 2001..[4].
Assassination Attempt
On the evening of 23 April 2009, mud, gravel and pebbles were found in his 13-seat helecopter VT-RCL’s (a Bell 412) gearbox.[5] At a height of 10 feet, the gravel and pebbles were put in (by someone) the filler cap in the gear box. A senior pilot of Reliance Transport and Travels Pvt. Ltd., Captain RN Joshi filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s office, Maharashtra Chief Minister’s office, Maharasthra Home Minister’s office, Chief Secretary’s office, Joint Commissioner of Police’s office and also at the Santa Cruz Police Station. The helicopter was standing outside a hangar at the Mumbai Airport when the sabotage was found. Bharat Borge, the man who found the pebbles in the helicopter was found dead on April 28, 2009 on Mumbai’s suburban railway tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri. A letter was also found with him. Railway Police believes that he might have been ran over by Churchgate bound fast-local. "Borge’s mysterious death has now
Economic Times noted[9]: “ ”
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became richer by almost Rs 27,000 crore [~ USD 7 billion].
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everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2008/09/13/ indian-tycoon-anil-ambani-sets-his-sightson-buying-everton-64375-21809389/. [11] http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ 2008/09/29/exclusive-everton-targettedfor-take-over-by-indian-tycoonworth-20billion-115875-20760882/
English Premier League
Ambani was in talks Everton officials over a deal to takeover the club. Before this he was also on the brink of buying Newcastle United
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External links
• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology • Forbes.com: Forbes World’s Richest [1] India Today 2005 Power List People [2] http://businesssheet.alleyinsider.com/ • Reliance ADAG loser-1-anil-ambani • Reliance India Call [3] India Today power list 2009 • Reliance Communications [4] ibnlive.com assassination article • Reliance Energy [5] Ibnlive.com assassination article • Reliance Capital [6] Rediff.com • Reliance World [7] India Today - article on dead witness • Reliance Life Insurance [8] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ • Reliance Rivalry_between_Ambani_siblings_affecting_economy/ General Insurance • Reliance Mutual Fund articleshow/3455058.cms • Reliance Portfolio Management [9] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ • Reliance Anil_Ambani_becomes_richer_by_Rs_27000_cr_after_SP- Natural Resources • Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd UPA_realignment/articleshow/ • Reliance Money 3278535.cms • Reliance Health [10] "Indian Tycoon Anil Ambani sets his • Adlabs Films sights on buying Everton". • Adlabs Cinemas http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/
References
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