Reliance - Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957 in Yemen) is an Indian businessman and the world's 5th richest man, with a net worth of approximately $20.8 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. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%. His wealth is valued at US$20.8 billion (according to Forbes), making him the richest man in Asia.
Mukesh and younger brother Anil are sons of the late founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani. Mukesh also owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians.
Education
Mukesh Ambani was educated at Abaay Morischa Schooli n Mumbai and completed his graduation with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the UDCT.Mukesh later enrolled for an MBA from Stanford University but completed only one year of the two year program.
Mukesh Ambani is a devout Hindu
Career
Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals. In this process, he directed the creation of 60 new, world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to twelve million tonnes per year.
He directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, with a present capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (105,000 m³/d) (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure, at an investment of Rs 100000 crore (nearly $26 billion USD).
Mukesh Ambani set up one of the largest telecommunications companies in India in the form of Reliance Communications (formerly Reliance Infocom) Limited. However, Reliance Infocom now is under Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group post the brothers' split. Had the two brothers not split, and Mukesh being the president , his net worth would have been around $85 billion. Under Ambani's leadership, Reliance has entered retail business through its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Retail.
Under him Reliance Retail has also launched a new chain called Delight stores and also signed a letter of intent with NOVA Chemicals to make energy-efficient structures for Reliance Retail.
Family
Mukesh Ambani is son of one of the most prominent businessmen in India, the late Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian entrepreneur and founder of Reliance Industries.
His brother Anil Ambani heads Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group with interests in telecom, power, natural resources, infrastructure and financial services. The Ambani brothers had a well-publicized spat after their father's death, which led to the Reliance Group being split between the two.
Mukesh Ambani is married to Nita Ambani, who looks after the social and charitable arm of Reliance Industries. They have three children: Akash, Isha and Anant.
Mukesh Ambani is currently building the world's most expensive home (valued at $2 billion). This will be a 60-story skyscraper (with only 27 floors) in downtown Mumbai. It may be called Antilia.
Siemens - Peter Loscher
Peter Löscher (born September 17, 1957 in Villach, Austria) is an Austrian manager and former President, Global Human Health at global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siemens AG on May 20, 2007 as the successor of Klaus Kleinfeld, and was slated to take on the new position on July 1, 2007.He was the first top executive in the 160 year history of Siemens to be hired from outside the company.
Education :
Peter Löscher graduated from Gymnasium Villach/Austria in 1978 and got a master's degree at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Later he attended an MBA program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard University. In 2007 he received the Honorary Degree of "Doctor of Engineering" from Michigan State University.
Professional career :
From 1988 until 2000 he worked for the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst in Spain, Japan, Great Britain and the United States. After Hoechst merged with Rhone-Poulenc he stayed at Aventis until 2002. He then joined Amersham, which was taken over by General Electric. In 2006 he became a member of the executive board of the US pharmaceutical company Merck.
Personal life
Peter Löscher speaks German, English, French, Spanish, and Japanese. He and his Spanish-born wife have three children.
Motorola - Greg Brown
Greg Brown, 48, is the President and Co-CEO of Motorola and has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Motorola's Broadband Mobility Solutions business which consists of the Home & Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses. Mr. Brown earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University and is a member of the Rutgers board of overseers. Mr. Brown is married and has two children.
Career Greg Brown joined Motorola in 2003 and was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors in 2007. Brown oversees the strategic and operational direction of the Illinois based, $32.6 billion telecommunications and enterprise Company. With more than 66,000 employees, Motorola is a global company whose portfolio of technologies, solutions and services includes wireless handsets, wireless accessories, digital entertainment devices, wireless access systems, voice and data communications systems, and enterprise mobility solutions.
Prior to this appointment, Brown served as president and chief operating officer for nine months in 2007. Before this he headed four different businesses at Motorola including the government and public safety, networks, enterprise and automotive businesses. Brown also led the $3.9 billion acquisition of Symbol Technologies, the second largest transaction in Motorola’s history and an important strategic move to strengthen Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility business.
Brown has more than 25 years of high-tech experience. Prior to joining Motorola, he was chairman and CEO of Micromuse Inc., a network management software company. Before that, he was president of Ameritech Custom Business Services and Ameritech New Media Inc. Prior to joining Ameritech in 1987, Brown held a variety of sales and marketing positions with AT&T.
In addition to his responsibilities at Motorola, Brown is an active member of the civic and business communities. In 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Brown to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). He is also a member of the Business Council, Business Roundtable, Technology CEO Council, the U.S.-China Business Council, the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, Northwestern Memorial Hospital board, and the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee.
Ericsson - Carl-Henric Svanberg
Carl-Henric Svanberg (born May 29, 1952, Porjus, Norrbottens län) is a Swedish businessman who is the current CEO of telecommunications company Ericsson.
Born in the north of Sweden, Svanberg studied in the south and graduated with a Masters degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Linköping Institute of Technology. He added another degree, this time in economics, from Uppsala University.
Before being appointed CEO of Ericsson, Svanberg led another Swedish industrial company - Assa Abloy. In addition to his duties at Ericsson, Svanberg serves on a number of different boards, including the investment company controlled by Melker Schörling. He also serves on the Stockholm Challenge Advisory Board
He lives with his wife and three children in Sigtuna outside Stockholm. Svanberg is a dedicated fan of Djurgårdens IF and serves on the board of Djurgårdens IF Hockey. He is a former ice hockey player himself, having played for IF Björklöven in Umeå during his youth.
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Nokia - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born in Lavia, Finland on July 13, 1953) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Corporation and Chairman of the board of directors for Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG.
Career Kallasvuo joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In 1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance. Since 1990 Kallasvuo has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia.
In 1992, Kallasvuo was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia United States, being responsible for all Nokia's business operations in the US. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004–2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position, Chief Executive Officer on June 1, 2006.
In addition to his duties for Nokia he is a member of the board of directors of EMC Corporation.
Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.
Education Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo holds a master's degree in law (LL.M.) from the University of Helsinki.
Personal life
Kallasvuo is married to Ursula Ranin, a lawyer formerly working for Nokia. From his previous marriage to Anita Kallasvuo he has two adult children; Jussi and Anu Kallasvuo.
According to his official Nokia biography page he enjoys golf, tennis and reading about political history in his spare time.
Kallasvuo's favourite website is; "Wikipedia [the user-generated online encyclopedia]. I love the way it aggregates information from different people."
Tax evasion conviction
In 2005, Kallasvuo was summarily fined 30 day fines (amounting to €31,000 at his income) for failing to properly declare privately imported luxury goods on a flight from Switzerland to Helsinki in September 2004. The incident was settled without an official court hearing after Kallasvuo pleaded no contest.
Vodafone - Vittorio Colao
Vittorio Colao (born 1961 in Brescia), is an Italian businessman, the current Chief Executive Designate of Vodafone Group.
The son of an officer in the Carabinieri, Colao was born in 1961 in Brescia. After studying business at Bocconi University and holding an MBA with Honours from Harvard Business School, he spent time in London at investment bankers Morgan Stanley. Colao joined the Milan office of McKinsey & Co in 1986, where as a Partner he worked on media, telecommunications and industrial goods sectors and was responsible for office recruitment.
In 1996 he joined Omnitel Pronto Italia, rising to Chief Operating Officer before its takeover to become Vodafone Italy. He became Regional CEO, Southern Europe in 2001 and joined the main board of Vodafone Group Plc's in 2002. After missing out on the CEO's job, taken by his friend Arun Sarin, and having a purchase of a Bulgarian mobile company blocked, Colao left Vodafone for Italian publishing company RCS Media Group, where he became CEO in July 2004.
After shareholder criticism of the publishing group's strategy and governance, he resigned from RCS Media Group following the company's board meeting of September 12, rejoining Vodafone on October 9, 2006 as CEO Europe and succeeding Sir Julian Horn-Smith as Deputy-CEO.
Commenting to the Italian press in 2007 that he had no interest in taking the CEO's job at Telecom Italia, Colao will succeed Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin from July 29, 2008.
Married in 1992, his wife and two children reside with him in the United Kingdom. Colao is a reserve officer in the Carabinieri.