Braj Mohan Chaturvedi: Mukesh Ambani

Born on April 19, 1957 in Yemen, Mukesh Ambani holds Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from UDCT Mumbai (MUICT). He also pursued an MBA at Stanford University but dropped out after his first year.

Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals. This was his first big achievement. In the process of backward and forward integration he created 60 new, world-class manufacturing facilities. He major achievement is creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, with a present capacity of 33 million tones per year integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure, at an investment of nearly $26 billion USD. At present, Mukesh Ambani is busy steering Reliance’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.

Mukesh Ambani set up one of the largest telecommunications companies in India in the form of Reliance Communications Limited. Under his leadership, Reliance has entered retail business through its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Retail. He also owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians. His interest lies in:
Exploration & Production
Petroleum Refining & Marketing
Petrochemicals
Textiles
Retail
SEZ

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company. He is world’s fifth richest man, with a net worth of approximately $43 billion.

Family
Mukesh Ambani is son of late Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian entrepreneur and founder of Reliance Industries, and Kokilaben Ambani. He is married to Nita Ambani, who looks after the social and charitable arm of Reliance industries. He has three children – Akash, Isha and Anant.

Mukesh Ambani with his family lives in south Mumbai in one part of an apartment block he shares with brother Anil. He is currently building, a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai, the world’s most expensive home which is valued at nearly $1 billion.

Achievements
Mukesh Ambani is member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, Government of India and the Board of Governors of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. He is member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum, the International Advisory Board of Citigroup. He is the Chairman, Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a member of the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Graduate School of Business of the Stanford University. A few awards and key achievements of the to the visionary Mukesh Ambani:
Businessman of the year 2007 by a public poll in India conducted by NDTV
United States-India Business Council (USIBC) leadership award for “Global Vision” 2007 in Washington
The first Trillionaire in India, June 2007
ET Business Leader of the Year’ Award by The Economic Times (India) in the year 2006
The India Business Leadership Award by CNBC-TV18 in 2007
first NDTV-Profit ‘Global Indian Leader Award’ from in the year 2006.
World Communication Award for the ‘Most Influential Person’ in Telecommunications by Total Telecom, in 2004

Katyayana

This Blog is dedicated to all the Management Professionals who want to challenge the set pattern, who are practical in their approach and dont think in thin air; who believe that strategy is all about making things simple; who strongly advocate the “Rule of Simple” and who believe that impossible is nothing. - Just like Katyayana. Katyayana was a disciple of Gautama Buddha. He is also known as Kaccana or Kaccayana, Mahakatyayana, Mahakaccana and in Japanese as Kasennen. Katyayana is one of the “Ten Disciples of the Buddha”. Mahakashyapa, Ananda, Shariputra, Subhuti, Purna, Mahamaudgalyayana, Katyayana, Aniruddha, Upali and Rahula. He was foremost in explaining Dharma. He was born in a brahmin family at Ujjayini (Ujjain) and received a classical Brahminical education studying the Vedas. Katyayana was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India, around the time of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. He is known for two works:- The Varttika, an elaboration on Panini’s grammar. Along with the Maha-bhasya of Patanjali, this text became a core part of the vyakarana (grammar) canon. This was one of the six Vedangas, and constituted compulsory education for Brahman students in the following twelve centuries.- He also composed one of the later Sulba Sutras, a series of nine texts on the geometry of altar constructions, dealing with rectangles, right-sided triangles, rhombuses, etc. Katyayana certainly have been a man of very considerable learning but probably not interested in mathematics for its own sake, merely interested in using it for religious purposes.He wrote the Sulbasutra to provide rules for religious rites and to improve and expand on the rules which had been given by his predecessors. Katyayana would have been a priest instructing the people in the ways of conducting the religious rites he describes. Authorship: Nettipakarana, a work of grammar, and Petakopadesa, a treatise on exegetical methodology, sulvasutras dealt with geometry.

Mukesh Ambani

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