Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Mukesh Ambani , Fifth richest person on planet

Mukesh Ambani is an Indian businessman and the world's fifth richest man, with a net worth of approximately $43 billion. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani, India's billionaire brothers have been named together among the world's 100 most influential and powerful people by British fashion magazine Vanity Fair. The duo had earlier made their way into the league of richest persons.

The warring Ambani brothers are ranked at the 67th place in the 100 list which is topped by Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin while media baron Rupert Murdoch is in the second spot.

The founders of search engine major Google -- Sergey Brin, Larry Page --and its CEO Eric Schmidt have been ranked at the third spot. Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs has cornered fourth rank, while legendary American investor Warren Buffet follows him to take the fifth place.





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