Mukesh Ambani
Background
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire industrialist and Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited. A chemical engineer trained at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai and Stanford Business School dropout, he transformed Reliance from textiles and petrochemicals into a digital and retail conglomerate.
Role at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
Mukesh Ambani is the visionary founder and strategic architect of Reliance Jio. Anticipating that digital broadband would become the defining utility of the modern world, Ambani committed over $40 billion of Reliance capital to build an all-IP 4G network from the ground up. In September 2016, he launched Jio with free voice calling and ultra-cheap mobile data, triggering a revolution that brought half a billion Indians online and established India as the world's fastest-growing digital economy.