Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian industrialist and chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates. Anil's elder brother Mukesh Ambani, who heads as the chairman of Reliance Industries. The Ambani family is the richest families in India and one of the richest in the world, their wealth inherited from Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of largest Indian conglomerate Reliance Group. 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 theIndian 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

ENTHUSIASTIC LEADER- Everyone in the company looks up to Anil for inspiration. As a boss, a sense of purpose should always be in mind. Every day should be treated as a new day at work and the optimism should show. The challenges are always met head on and dealt with the demeanor of Anil who enjoys doing it. Anil Ambani believes firmly in hard work. The passion you should have for your work is the foremost in having a leadership role in any activity. OPPORTUNISTIC-From an early age, the Ambani brothers were given ambitious goals. When Anil returned from Wharton Business School in 1982, the day after completing his master degree in 14 months instead of 24, he thought he was due a break. His father had other ideas: that evening he was dispatched to the company's textile plant in Ahmadabad, where he spent the next five years learning the business from the ground up. Within Reliance, Anil is the Ambani with the head for figures. As co-CEO in the 80s, he is credited with many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. GOOD TEACHER/INSPIRATION-Anil Ambani is a foremost entrepreneur of independent India with a remarkable success to his credit. He held the post of Vice-Chairman and Managing Director in Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) after the historic split he chairs his own venture Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group. Anil Ambani is a fitness enthusiast and has participated in the Mumbai Marathon Race. As of 2010, he is the fourth richest Indian, a member of the board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennslyvania, the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Member of Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (he resigned in March. 2006.) He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DAIICT, Gandhinagar. His day begins at 4:00 am, after checking news, he goes for a jogging. Anil Ambani drinks 6 litres of water every day and enjoys eating Pav Bhaji. Anil Ambani is a source of inspiration to the young aspirants; he has set an example of achieving success through innovation, determination and hardwork. EXTREMELY ADAPTABLE- This was the biggest family show ever since the 'ownership issues' between brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani divided the Reliance empire in 2005. Recently, the two brothers hugged each other at their ancestral home in the coastal town of Chorwad, where their illustrious father Dhirubhai Ambani spent his childhood. They performed havan at the home, which is being converted into a museum in memory of their father, and even paid homage at the temple of Goddess Chorwadi, or Chorwad Bhavani. SECURE-After sufficiently educating himself Anil Ambani started his career in Reliance; in the year 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer. He managed the fund raising and marketing activities. Anil Ambani was in fact the man behind many innovations in the field of Indian finance. His first project which proved him as a financial wizard was, venturing into overseas capital markets with inteational public offerings of global depository receipts, convertibles and bonds. He started in 1991 and succeeded in tapping global financial markets, and raised around US $2 billion from overseas financial markets. Under Anil's efficient stewardship, the 100 year Yankee bond issue was launched in January 1997. PERSEVERING-Anil Ambani’s Reliance communications is one of the largest telecommunications company in India. Anil Ambani has around 66% stake in Reliance communications. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment or RBE has signed deals with leading production houses in Hollywood. The value of the movies will be worth $1 billion. Reliance Big Entertainment or RBE entered into a deal withAmitabh Bachchan and family. The worth of the deal was Rs 1500 crore. Reliance Big Entertainment or RBE is in talks with Steven Spielberg for a possible Joint venture deal where Reliance Big Entertainment or RBE will invest $600 million in Spielberg’s DreamWorks. FLEXIBILITY- The education and learning, his exposure to business environment right from his childhood days molded him up into an optimistic and flexible entrepreneur, who worked out the dreams of common people of India. Today Reliance ADAG entered every nook and corner of India, addresses the needs of one in ten Indians in their day to day life, with its products and services, extending its business into 2, 00,000 towns and 4.5 lakh villages; with over customer base of 100mn. The company has large shareholder base and has ties with five continents across the world, stands among largest in the world.

EXPANDING HORIZONS- After demise of his father Dhirubhai Ambani in 2002, July; Reliance group was split between the two brothers and Anil Ambani got the responsibility of Reliance Infocomm, Reliance Energy, Reliance Capital and Reliance Natural Resources Limited. This led to a new beginning called Reliance. Later this group entered the power sector through Reliance Power and the entertainment sector by acquiring Adlabs. Anil played current trends in business and shifted traditional business into sectors such as Television, gaming and radio (Entertainment). One of Anil's major achievements in the entertainment industry is acquiring Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that owns Mumbai's only dome theatre. Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE). The RBE has entered into contracts with leading production houses in the movie world. It has signed a deal worth of Rs. 1500 crores with Amitabh Bachchan and family. Currently, the RBE is in talks with the Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg for a possible Joint venture deal where RBE will invest $600 million in Spielberg's Dream Works. SELF DISICIPLINE-Anil Ambani’s daily routine starts sharply, at 4 a.m. in the moing. “Concentration can be cultivated. One can lea to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind” are the great words of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani. He jogs every moing to keep him fit and also takes part in Mumbai Marathon once in a while. He is a vegetarian and does not drink or smoke. His lifestyle is a perfect blend of glamour and health. Anil lived a success story up to his dreams and he is known for his realistic approach and positive attitude towards life, Anil has become new generation role model business man, for the youngsters in India. POSITIVE-In spite of all the odds Anil Ambani had vibrant business plans for ADAG for the future years. This shows his go getter type of brave and positive attitude and his strength in business variables; taking the company to the new heights. His Reliance Power plans to build 13 power plants for $25 billion by 2014. Group's infrastructure arm is investing $5 billion in new roads and metro systems to be completed by 2012. His entertainment unit has committed $825 million to Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios to co- produce films; first one likely to be a movie on Martin Luther King Jr. He's also bidding for debt-burdened studio MGM. Anil Ambani said “It has always been our ambition to create a world-class bank". He was referring to a discussion paper recently floated by RBI on grant of new banking licenses. Anil Ambani told Reliance Capital shareholders at the company's 24th AGM that "The RBI has recently come out with a discussion paper, containing revised guidelines for the grant of a banking license". Echoing his view, Reliance Communications Chairman Anil Ambani said, "Data is at the root of convergence. “Reliance Communications today asked the govement to give due recognition to broadband, which can bring in the next telecom revolution, with 3G also coming into the picture. VISIONARY-Anil Ambani has this very talent of making money out of everywhere. His Reliance Power project, that was created in order to get rid of the lack of electricity in the country, has gathered five millions of the individual IPO signatures. This is rather extraordinary, since emissive convention honestly stated that the company does not possess any of the power station and completely no power plants, there are no profitable activities and so on and so forth - sixty six bullet points were stated and they did not sound well at all.The startup standing order stated the following: we have got nothing but we hope for the brighter future. The shares were sold as quickly as possible and they've all brought Anil three billion dollars of income. Even the shares' slight collapse did not shatter the investors' confidence and trust.