Mukesh Ambani, the CMD of Reliance Industries Ltd., received the Penn Engineering Deans Medal here in Mumbai, on Friday, 8th January 2010. In a ceremony at the Trident Hotel he was honoured with the Deans Medal by Eduardo Glandt, Dean of Penn Engineering. The University of Pennsylvania has conferred this award on Mukesh Ambani for his visionary leadership in the application of engineering and technology for the betterment of society and mankind. The award is a testimony to this global visionary; who runs Indias biggest corporate house, Reliance Industries Ltd. Mr. Mukesh Ambani started his corporate journey in 1981 by joining his father, late Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, the founding chairman of Reliance. He initiated Reliances vertical integration journey from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and eventually oil and gas exploration and production. He then led the creation of 51 new, world-class manufacturing facilities encompassing diverse technologies that increased Reliances manufacturing capacities manifold. The Jamnagar Refinery in Gujarat which is now the worlds largest grassroots petroleum refinery was the brainchild of Mukesh Ambani. Dhirubhais dream project Reliance Infocomm, which is now one of the largest telecommunications companies in India and has emerged as Reliance Communications Limited was also set up by Mukesh Ambani. He is currently steering Reliances development of a pan-India retail network, a transformational initiative connecting, rural and urban India. In a recent study by the Harvard Business Review, Mukesh Ambani has been recognized as the fifth best CEO of the world in a review, which surveyed a total of 1,999 CEOs of large public traded companies across the globe. In the course of his career he has gone from strength to strength. He has been conferred as many as 5 awards by NDTV, a leading news channel in India. He has also featured in the survey of Top 50 Most Respected Business Leaders of the World conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2002 as well as 2004. At the global level Mukesh Ambani has been felicitated twice by the United States India Business Council. He is also the only Indian CEO to be invited thus far to become a Council Member of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in July 2007.
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