Mukesh Ambani Bio | Wiki
Mukesh Ambani is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He serves as the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India’s most valuable company by market value. He is the second richest person in Asia after Gautam Adani and the 8th richest in the world.
Mukesh has been quoted as saying that he was influenced by his teachers William F. Sharpe and Man Mohan Sharma because they are “the kind of professors who made you think out of the box.” In 1981 he started to help his father Dhirubhai Ambani run their family business, Reliance Industries Limited. By this time, it had already expanded so that it also dealt with refining and petrochemicals.
Mukesh Ambani Age
Mukesh was born on April 19, 1957, in Aden, Yemen. He is 69 years old.
Mukesh Ambani Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
Mukesh Ambani Family
He was born in the British Crown colony of Aden into a Gujarati Hindu family to Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani. Mukesh has a younger brother Anil Ambani and two sisters, Nina Bhadrashyam Kothari and Dipti Dattaraj Salgaonkar. The family only lived in Yemen because his father decided to move back to India in 1958 to start a trading business that focused on spices and textiles.
They lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai until the 1970s. The family’s financial status slightly improved when they moved to India but Mukesh still lived in a communal society, used public transportation, and never received an allowance. Dhirubhai later purchased a 14-floor apartment block called ‘Sea Wind’ in Colaba, where, until recently, Mukesh and his brother lived with their families on different floors.
Mukesh Ambani Wife
Mukesh is married to his beautiful wife Nita Ambani. The couple celebrated their wedding in 1985. They met after his father attended a dance performance in which Nita took part and thought of the idea of arranging a marriage between the two. The couple has three children, two sons Akash and Anant, and a daughter, Isha, who is Akash’s twin.
In 2007, Mukesh gifted his wife a $60 million Airbus A319 for her 44th birthday. The Airbus, which has a capacity of 180 passengers, has been custom-fitted to include a living room, bedroom, satellite television, WiFi, sky bar, Jacuzzi, and an office.
Mukesh Ambani Education
He attended the Hill Grange High School at Peddar Road, Mumbai, along with his brother and Anand Jain, who later became his close associate. Later, Mukesh studied at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He then received a BE degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology.
Subsequently, he enrolled for an MBA at Stanford University but withdrew in 1980 to help his father build Reliance, which at the time was still a small but fast-growing enterprise. Mukesh’s father felt that real-life skills were harnessed through experiences and not by sitting in a classroom, so he called his son back to India from Stanford to take command of a yarn manufacturing project in his company.
Mukesh Ambani House
His family resides in Antilia, a private 27-story building in Mumbai, which was valued at US$1 billion and was the most expensive private residence in the world at the time it was built. The building requires a staff of 600 for maintenance, and it includes three helipads, a 160-car garage, a private movie theater, a swimming pool, and a fitness center.
Mukesh Ambani Reliance
Mukesh is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India’s most valuable company by market value. In 1980, he withdrew from Stanford University to help his father build Reliance. At the time, it was a small but fast-growing enterprise. He took command of a yarn manufacturing project in his father’s company.
In 1981 Mukehs started to help his father Dhirubhai run their family business, Reliance Industries Limited. By this time, it had already expanded so that it also dealt with refining and petrochemicals. The business also included products and services in the retail and telecommunications industries.
Reliance Retail Ltd., another subsidiary, is also the largest retailer in India. Reliance’s Jio has earned a top-five spot in the country’s telecommunication services since its public launch on 5 September 2016. Through Reliance, Mukesh also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians and is the founder of the Indian Super League, a football league in India.
Mukesh Ambani 5G
In August 2022, Mukesh announced a $25bn plan for launching 5G mobile internet services in the next two months. High-speed internet will be launched in major cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai and then in the rest of the country by the end of 2023.
Mukesh Ambani Net Worth
According to Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Mukesh’s net worth is estimated at $95.7 billion as of September 6, 2022, making him the second richest person in Asia after Gautam Adani and the 8th richest in the world.
Who Is Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh is married to his beautiful wife Nita Ambani. The couple celebrated their wedding in 1985 and has three children, two sons Akash and Anant, and a daughter, Isha.