India's
richest man Mukesh Ambani turned 61 on Thursday. One of the most powerful
businessmen, not just in India but also the world, Mukesh Ambani's net worth is
40.1 billion dollars, according to Forbes data released in March 2018. He is
currently the CEO and chairman of Reliance Industries Limited which is ranked
among the Fortune Global 500 with Ambani owning 44.7% stake, making him its
largest shareholder.
Mukesh
Ambani was born on April 19, 1957 in Aden, Yemen. After completing his
graduation and gaining a degree in chemical engineering, he enrolled at
Stanford University but dropped out a year later to help his father.
Mukesh
Ambani joined the company in 1981 and turned it into a profit-minting firm. He
is the board member of several other groups such as Reliance Exploration and
Production (chairman), Bank of America Corporation (director and member of the
credit committee and the compensation & benefits committee), Council on
Foreign Relation and the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (president).
Here
are 10 interesting facts about Mukesh Ambani you probably didn't know:
1.
Everyone knows about Mukesh Ambani's connection with cricket as he owns Indian
Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. But, during his school days, Mukesh
Ambani used to play hockey and had also lost his interest in studies because of
it.
2.
Business tycoons Adi Godrej and Anand Mahindra were Mukesh Ambani's school
mates and are also his best friends.
3.
Mukesh Ambani is a teetotaler and has never tasted the alcohol in his life. He
is also a pure vegetarian.
4.
Mukesh Ambani owns the world's largest refinery. He had commissioned a refinery
in Jamnagar, Gujarat and with an installed capacity 668000 barrels/day which
has become world's largest refinery.
5.
He is also the proud owner of world's most expensive residential property -
Antilia located in South Mumbai. It has 27 stories and more than 600 staff
members.
6. Mukesh Ambani is fond of
cars and reportedly owns over 168 of them. This includes BMW 760LI which is
completely bulletproof with an armour so strong that it can easily bear a bomb
blast. The same car which is imported from Germany is used by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. He also owns Mercedes-Maybach Benz S660 Guard, Aston Martin
Rapide, Rolls Royce Phantom and Bentley Continental Flying Spur.
7.
He is the only businessman in India with Z-category security.
8.
Mukesh Ambani took India's telecom sector by a storm when he launched Jio. It
had reached 16 million subscribers within one month of the launch and started a
revolution to disrupt the data consumption and sparked a price war in
hyper-competitive telecom marketing ultimately benefiting the customers.
9.
Mukesh Ambani earns an annual salary of Rs 15 crore, which has remained
unchanged for the past nine years.
10.
His company contributes almost 5% of the total tax revenue of India. In 2017,
the company had assets of 110 billion USD.
