Company: Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, India
Company Description: The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 58 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Executive of the Year - Conglomerates
Company Description: The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 58 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Executive of the Year - Conglomerates
Nomination Title: Mukesh D Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director
Tell the story about what this nominee achieved (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from University Institute of Chemical Technology (earlier University Department of Chemical Technology), University of Mumbai (earlier University of Bombay). He has pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA.
Mukesh D. Ambani, son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani, Founder Chairman of the Company joined Reliance in 1981. He initiated Reliance's backward integration journey from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going up-stream into oil and gas exploration and production. He created several new world class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to about twenty million tonnes per year.
Mr. Mukesh Ambani had 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. Ambani is steering Reliance's group's initiatives in a world scale, offshore, deep water oil and gas exploration and production program, setting up of a second petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure.
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is leading Reliance's development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure. Mr. Mukesh Ambani holds a keen interest in the field of education and healthcare and Reliance Life Sciences is a new millennium initiative of the Reliance Group of companies towards developing business opportunities in the domains of medical, plant and industrial biotechnology.
Mukesh D. Ambani's achievements have been acknowledged at national and international levels. Over the years, some of the awards and recognition bestowed on him are:
Conferred the Penn Engineering Dean's Medal for application of engineering and technology in January 2010
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.
In the year 2004 he was 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 the Financial Times, London.
He was conferred the World Communication Award for the Most Influential Person in telecommunications by Total Telecom and chosen Telecom Man of the Year by Voice and Data magazine in 2004.
Along with being ranked 13 in Asia`s Power 25 list of The Most Powerful People in Business published by Fortune magazine he also ranked No.1 for the second consecutive year, in The Power List 2004 published by India Today.
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