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Anil ambani
Anil Ambani
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian
industrialist and chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates.
Anil's elder brother Mukesh Ambani, who heads as the
chairman of Reliance Industries. The Ambani family is the
richest families in India and one of the richest in the world.
He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the
member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute
of Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of
Management,Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Central
Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory
Commission. In March 2006, he resigned. He is also the
Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.
Personal life
Anil Ambani is Gujarati Indian. He is married to
Indian bollywood Actress Tina Munim and has
two sons Zahir and Anshul. He has taken part in
the Mumbai Marathon race. Ambani is also a fan
of Premier League club, Newcastle United and was
extremely close to buying the club in September
2008. In June 2004, Anil was selected as an
Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha - upper
house of the Parliament of India.
He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh
Bachchan and Subrata Roy.
Career
Ambani joined Reliance Industries, 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.
One of his major achievements in the entertainment
industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie
production to distribution to multiplex company that
owns India's only dome theatre and the recently
announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million
with Steven Spielberg
One of his major achievements in the entertainment
industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie production to
distribution to multiplex company that owns India's only
dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture
worth US$ 825 million with Steven Spielberg.
He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother,
Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of gas from the latter's KG
basin.
He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser"
list of business leaders who lost money in the late 2000s
recession,losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought him
out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.
Assassination attempt
On the evening of 22 April 2009, mud, gravel and pebbles
were found in the gearbox of his 13-seat helicopter VTRCL's (a Bell 412).Despite the gearbox being located at a
height of 10 feet from the ground, the gravel and pebbles
were put in 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, Maharashtra
Home Minister's office, Chief Secretary's office, Joint
Commissioner of Police's office and also at the Santa Cruz
Police Station.
Awards and recognition
Voted the 3rd most powerful person in India in the
2009 India Today Power List, in March.
Voted Businessman of the Year 2006 by Times of IndiaTNS poll
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.
Conferred the 'Businessman of the Year 1997' award by
India's leading business magazine Business India,
December 1997.
English Premier League
Ambani was in talks in September 2008
with Everton officials over a deal to take over the club
