Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian business baron and a major shareholder in

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Anil's elder brother, Mukesh Ambani, is also
worth more than a billion dollars, and owns another company called Reliance Industries.
With an estimated personal wealth of $13.7 billion, he is the fourth richest Indian in the
world, behind Mukesh Ambani,Lakshmi Mittal and Azim Premji.[3]

He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of

Pennsylvania. He is also the member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the
Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. In March
2006, he resigned. He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT,
Gandhinagar.

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• 1 Career
o 1.1 Assassination attempt
• 2 Awards and Recognition
• 3 Personal life
o 3.1 Travel
• 4 English Premier League
• 5 Bibliography
• 6 References

• 7 External links

[edit] Career
Ambani joined Reliance, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in
1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial
innovations in the Indian capital markets. For example, he led India's first forays into
overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts,
convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991, around
US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in
January 1997 being the high point, after which people regarded him as a financial
wizard[citation needed]. He along with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, has steered the Reliance
Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum, petrochemicals, power,
and telecom company.

He has been linked with several starlets in his long career including his current wife of
more than 15 years. He is a close friend of movie star Amitabh Bachchan and Subrata
Roy.One of his major achievements in the entertainment industry is the takeover of
Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns India's only
dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million with
Steven Spielberg

He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of
gas from the latter's KG basin..

He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who
lost money in the Late 2000s recession [4], losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought
him out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.

[edit] Assassination attempt

On the evening of 23 April 2009, mud, gravel and pebbles were found in his 13-seat
helicopter VT-RCL's (a Bell 412) gearbox.[5] Despite the gear box being located at a
height of 10 feet from the ground, the gravel and pebbles were put in the filler cap in the
gear box. A senior pilot of Reliance Transport and Travels Pvt. Ltd., Captain RN Joshi
filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police Commissioner's office, Maharashtra Chief
Minister's office, Maharasthra Home Minister's office, Chief Secretary's office, Joint
Commissioner of Police's office and also at the Santa Cruz Police Station.

The helicopter was standing outside a hangar at the Mumbai Airport when the sabotage
was found by Bharat Borge, a technician for Air Works. Borge was found dead on April
28, 2009 on Mumbai's suburban railway tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri. A letter
was also found with him. Railway Police believes that he might have been run over by
the Churchgate-bound fast-local. "Borge's mysterious death created a flutter, lending
credence to Anil Ambani's charge that certain 'rival business groups were trying to
eliminate him'. "[6][7]

The post-mortem conducted on Bharat Borge revelated that he died of shock due to
multiple fractures, resulting in brain haemorrhage.[8] There was also a letter found in his
pocket written in marathi saying "I haven't done anything wrong. That day, some
Reliance people came and spoke to me. I didn't tell them anything. One of them took my
number and said that he'll talk to me later. I felt they were using me. I am writing this
letter after thinking all night. It looks like the blame will be on me. I think the
investigation is on the right track and truth will emerge soon."[8]

Investigators later said that Borge's death was an accident and not suicide.[9]

Airworks India Engineering Pvt. Ltd., the company that maintains the helicopter, was
questioning its employees in the case.[10]

[edit] Awards and Recognition

• Voted the 3rd most powerful person in India in the 2009 India Today Power List,
in March.[11]
• Voted Businessman of the Year 2006 by Times of India-TNS poll[12]
 • Adjudged as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards
for 2004.
• Voted as 'MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2003' in September 2003.
• Conferred 'The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award' by the Bombay Management
Association, October 2002.
• Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India
Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment
of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001.
• Conferred the ' Businessman of the Year 1997' award by India's leading business
magazine Business India, December 1997.

[edit] Personal life

Anil Ambani is Gujarati. He is married to Indian Bollywood Actress Tina Munim and has
two sons Anmol and Anshul. He has taken part in the Mumbai Marathon race. Ambani is
also a fan of Coca-Cola Championship club, Newcastle United and was extremely close
to buying the club in September 2008. In June 2004, Anil was elected as an Independent
Member of the Rajya Sabha - Upper House, Parliament of India with the support of the
Samajwadi Party. He wakes up daily at 4:00am, checks the news and then goes for a run.
[3]

He drinks 6 litres of water every day and likes to eat Pav Bhaji. [4]

[edit] Travel

He has a Bell 412 13-seat helicopter, which he purchased in 2001.[13]

[edit] English Premier League

Ambani was in talks with Everton officials over a deal to takeover the club. Before this
he was also on the brink of buying Newcastle United.[14][15] He is now believed to be keen
to re-kindle his interest in Everton as Chairman Bill Kenwright has admitted he will now
actively seek to sell his shares due to the collapse of the clubs collapsed Destination
Kirkby stadium project