Top ranking CEO’s

Submitted By: Urvi Joshipura Isha Mehta

Jay Patel Nilesh Shahji

Sunita Fatwani

Rank 5th-MUKESH AMBANI

Flow of presentation

• Introduction- Mr. Mukesh Ambani• Educational background • Vision • Career graph • Changes he made• Traits • Honors and rewards

Mukesh Ambani- The Leader

• Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born on 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate and the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, the largest private sector enterprise in India, a Fortune 500 company.

• Mukesh Ambani is the eldest son of Dhirubhai Ambani, the late founder of Reliance Industries.

• He joined Reliance Industries in 1981. • Fourth richest man in the world with a personal wealth

of US$ 29.0 billion and with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion leaving Bill Gates.

• His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%.

Educational Background• Mukesh Ambani chose to pursue science and

eventually chemical engineering while everyone expected him to do textile engineering.

• Initially he joined IIT, Bombay but since the inter-science results came in later he left and joined the University Department of Chemical Technology.

• He has pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA.

Vision/Quotes• On his choice of Chemical engineering as opposed

to textiles he quotes a line from the movie ‘The Graduate’ that left a mark on his mind, “There’s a great future in plastics”, as it represented what his father always believed in: investing in businesses of the future and investing in talent.

• On being asked if he would prefer to be local or global his response is very clear that he aims at changing the lives of people and has ambitions are only for India.

• His views on his ambitions for Reliance are that his focus is on value generation and scaling up to a pick and not simply increasing size.

Career graph

• Ambani set up one of the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited

• Further, he steered the setting up of another 27 million tonnes refinery next to the existing one in Jamnagar.

• Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is also steering Reliance's development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure.

• He then led the creation of 51 new, world-class manufacturing facilities encompassing diverse technologies that increased Reliance's manufacturing capacities manifold.

Changes he made

• He initiated Reliance's backward integration journey from textiles into polyester fibre and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going up-stream into oil and gas exploration.

• Ambani directed and led the creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, with a current capacity 33 million tonnes per year.

Traits • Leadership • Visionary • Calm and composed nature• Risk-taker

Honors and Rewards• January 2010: School of Engineering and Applied Science of

the University of Pennsylvania confers him with the Dean's medal.

• Conferred the 'Indian Corporate Citizen of the Year' by the India Leadership conclave 2009.

• Bestowed the US-India Business Council (USIBC) 'Global Vision' 2007 Award for Leadership in 2007.

• Conferred 'ET Business Leader of the Year' Award by The Economic Times (India) in the year 2006.

• 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.

• Had the distinction and honour of being the Co-chair at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2006.

• 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 2004.

• Conferred the World Communication Award for the 'Most Influential Person' in Telecommunications by Total Telecom, in 2004.

• Conferred the 'Asia Society Leadership Award' by the Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, in 2004.

Mukesh Ambani, a person with his kitty full of

achievements and accolades is cynosure of milions of people around the globe. His style of working and managing his multi-million dollar business since all these years, is truly a sign of a great leader and definitely the most influential businessman we have !