Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and
managing director of India's largest private sector enterprise -- Reliance
Industries Limited -- was born on April 19, 1957.
His father, the legendary Dhirubhai
Ambani, was then a small businessman who later on rose to become one of the
legends of Indian industry.
Mukesh joined Reliance Industries in
1981 and was the brain behind Reliance's backward integration from textiles
into polyester fibres and 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.
The world's largest grassroots
petroleum refinery at Jamnagar is his brainchild. He was also the in-charge of
Dhirubhai's dream project Reliance Infocomm. But after the split in the
Reliance Empire, Reliance Infocomm went to his brother Anil.
Mukesh Ambani is now planning to
enter retail sector in a big way and will launch a chain of 'Reliance Fresh'
retail stores. He also entered into an agreement with the Haryana government to
establish a Special Economic Zone with an investment running into billions of
rupees.
He has a bachelor's degree in Chemical
Engineering from University of Bombay and a master's in Business Administration
from Stanford University, USA.
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