ANIL AMBANI


 Birthday: June 4, 1959

Nationality: Indian
Born In: Mumbai

Famous As: Chairman Of Reliance ADA Group

FAMILY:

Spouse/Ex-: Tina Ambani (M. 1991)

Father: Dhirubhai Ambani

Mother: Kokilaben Ambani

Siblings: Deepti Salgaonkar, Mukesh Ambani, Nina Kothari

Children: Anmol Ambani, Jai Anshul Ambani

Childhood & Early Life:

Anil Ambani was born on June 4, 1959, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani, the founding father of Reliance Industries, and his wife Kokilaben Ambani. He is the younger brother of Mukesh Ambani, who later became the head of Reliance Industries Limited, and has two sisters, Nina Kothari and Deepti Salgaonkar.
His father settled in Mumbai following his return from Yemen and started his import-export business in a small 350 sq. ft. room in partnership with his cousin Champaklal Damani. He and his partner went their separate ways in 1965 and he founded Reliance Industries in 1966.
Anil grew up in a typical middle-class Indian family and lived in a two-bedroom apartment at the Jai Hind Estate in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, in the early 1970s. The family lived in a six-storeyed apartment at Usha Kiran for some time and later his father purchased a 14-floor apartment in Colaba, where the two brothers lived for a long time.
In 1975, he enrolled in Kishinchand Chellaram College under the University of Mumbai, from where he earned his bachelor's degree in Science. He later went to the USA to pursue his master's degree in Business Administration at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Awards & Achievements:

  • In December 1997, India's leading business magazine 'Business India' named Anil Ambani the 'Businessman of the Year'.
  • He was conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management Association in October 2002.
  • In 2004, he was named 'the CEO of the Year' in the Platts Global Energy Awards.
  • Anil Ambani was voted the 'Businessman of the Year' in a poll by 'The Times of India', in 2006