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Seventh Spot: Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957) is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company and a Fortune 500 Company. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%. His wealth of US$ 43 billion as of March 2007 has been decimated during a turbulent 2008 to $19.5 billion but still enough to make him the seventh richest man in the world in 2009, a drop of two places from fifth in 2008. Mukesh and younger brother Anil are sons of the late founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani.

Fortune	Business	Country	Status
19.5 Billion	Manufacturing	India	Married, 3 children

Mukesh holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Mumbai Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), which is now known as University of Mumbai, Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT). He began the MBA program at Stanford Business School, but failed to finish. He dropped out after his first year in order assist in father's ongoing efforts to build the Patalganga petrochemical plant.

Mukesh Ambani has set up the largest and most complex information and communications technology initiative in the world in the form of Reliance Infocomm Limited. Covering more than 1,100 towns and cities across India, Reliance Infocomm offers the full range of voice, data, video and value added services, on the strength of 80,000 kilometers of optic fibre-based terabit infrastructure, at the lowest entry cost and services cost anywhere in the world. However, Reliance Infocom now is under ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) post the brothers' split. (wiki)

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