Mr. Mukesh Ambani,
son of Shri Dhirubhai Ambani, is a
chemical engineer from Mumbai University
and has pursued his MBA from Stanford
University, USA. He started his journey
with Reliance in 1981 and was responsible
for Reliance's backward integration
from textiles into polyester fibres
and further into petrochemicals, petroleum
refining and oil and gas exploration
and production.
Shri Mukesh Ambani has lead the conception
and development of several new world-class
manufacturing facilities involving
diverse technologies that raised
Reliance
's petrochemicals manufacturing capacities
from less than a million tonnes to
about twenty million tonnes per year.
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is steering
Reliance
Group 's development of infrastructure
facilities and implementation of a
pan-India organized retail network
spanning multiple formats and supply
chain infrastructure.
Mr. Mukesh Ambani has set up one of
the largest and most complex information
and communications technology initiative
in the world in the form of Reliance
Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications
Limited). Mr. Mukesh Ambani also directed
the creation of the world's largest
grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar,
India, with a current capacity of
660,000 barrels per day (33 million
tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals,
power generation, port and related
infrastructure.
Mr. Ambani believed, a "single
window solutions provider" was
necessary for all transportation,
distribution, warehousing, logistics,
and supply chain needs of Corporate
India to capitalize on India's transition
to a consumer economy through its
rapidly growing middle class.
So, he founded Reliance Logistics
(P) Limited in 2001-02 to assist Corporate
India in realizing their logistics
needs at an optimum cost.
Achievements and Accolades
-
- Conferred the Penn Engineering
Dean's Medal for application of
engineering and technology in
January 2010
- Bestowed the US-India Business
Council (USIBC) 'Global Vision'
2007 Award for Leadership in 2007.
- Invited to be a member of the
World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD). He is the
only Indian CEO to be a Council
Member of WBCSD.
- Conferred 'ET Business Leader
of the Year' Award by The Economic
Times (India) in the year 2006.
- Had the distinction and honour
of being the cochair at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- Ranked 42nd among the 'World's
Most Respected Business Leaders'
and second among the four Indian
CEOs featured in a survey conducted
by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and
published in Financial Times,
London, in November, 2004.
- Conferred the World Communication
Award for the 'Most Influential
Person' in Telecommunications
by Total Telecom, in October,
2004.
- Conferred the 'Asia Society
Leadership Award' by the Asia
Society, Washington D.C., USA,
in May, 2004.
- Conferred the Degree Honoris
Causa, Honorary Doctorate by the
Maharaja Sayajirao University
in 2007.
- Conferred the India Business
Leadership Award by CNBC-TV18
in 2007.
- Received the first NDTV-Profit
'Global Indian Leader Award' from
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India,
Shri Manmohan Singh in New Delhi
in the year 2006.
Mr. Ambani is a member of the Prime
Minister's Council on Trade and Industry,
Government of India and the Board
of Governors of the National Council
of Applied Economic Research, New
Delhi. He is a member of the Indo-US
CEOs Forum, the International Advisory
Board of Citigroup, International
Advisory Board of the National Board
of Kuwait and McKinsey Advisory Council.
