10 Top Performing CEOs of India

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 02:12 IST   |    5 Comments
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7. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani: Born on 19th April, 1957, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of Reliance Industries. This is the largest private sector enterprise in India listed by the Fortune Global 500. It is the most valuable company by market value and is the second largest Indian company by turnover. His personal stake in RIL is 48 percent.

He was enlisted as one of  the most powerful people in the world by Forbes, among 68 people who matter most, in 2010. According to 2011 data, he is the second richest man in Asia and ninth richest man in the world.

He is a board member in the board of directors of Bank of America Corporation and a present member of the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a chairman of Board of Governors of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.he joined RIL in 1981. He extended the wings of RIL from textiles to ployester fibers, petrochemicals, petroleum refining etc.