Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Ambani falls within that specified category of Indian businesmen who by the help of their sharp acumen and professional farsightedness has already earned a fame throughout the international arena. He is at present the Chairman, Managing Director and also the largest shareholder of the Reliance Industries, a premiere and to the latest statistics the largest private sector copany and a Fortune 500 Company of India. The Company originally founded by his father Sri Dhiru Bhai Ambani has thus fallen into a hand that, according to the market experts, is determined to reach the zenith by means of hard work and sheer diligence. His personal stake in the Reliance Industries is 48%. According to the latest statistics of March 2007, his net worth is US$ 20.1 billion, that has made him the 14 th richest person in the global arena and the second richest person in India.

Being brought up in a business climate, he from his early childhood had a natural inclination to make the family busines his career path. He was graduated as a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, Institute of Chemical Technology or the UICT, prior known as the University of Mumbai Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT). Though he was keenly interested for higher stuides and even enroled himself in the internationally renowned MBA progam at the Stanford Business School, however became unable to finish. He dropped out after his first year in order assist in father's ongoing efforts to build the Patalganga petrochemical plant.

From his joining in the Reliance Industries in the year 1981 he bacame the key person in the initiation of the backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals of the Reliance Industry. His brilliance in this direction was first felt when he headed the craetion of 60 new world-class manufacturing facilities. These involved diverse technologies that have succeeded in elevating the manufacturing capacities of the Reliance from a minuscule proportion of less than a million tonnes to twelve million tonnes per year.

He has also been instrumental in the setting up of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of the Reliance Infocomm Limited. The innovative strategy has a unique notion and infrstructure of covering more than 1,100 towns and cities throughout the length and breadth of India along with the offering of the the full range of voice, data, video and value added services, wholly depending on the strength of 80,000 kilometers of optic fibre-based terabit infrastructure, offering the lowest entry cost and services cost anywhere in the world.