Company’s Executive Chairman and Founder of the Adani Group, that is a global integrated infrastructure player with businesses in resources, logistics and energy sectors. Gautam is a self made entrepreneur who has set up a $8 billion empire. He is said to be among the 100 most influential businessmen worldwide in shipping trade and developing shipping related infrastructure.
Background
Gautam Adani was born on June 24, 1962 in the Sethni Pol located in Ratanpol in Ahmedabad, India. He had seven siblings. In search of livelihood, Adani`s parents had migrated from the town of Tharad in northern Gujarat. He came to Mumbai with only a few hundred rupees at a young age of 18. He finished his studies at the Seth C. N. Vidyalya School in Ahmedabad and later on at Gujarat University. He studied till second year for his Bachelor`s Degree in Commerce as he gave up his studies. He started his career as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers. He set up his own diamond brokerage outfit at Zaveri Bazaar after working there for two years. In 1981, his elder brother Mansukhbhai, asked Gautam to buy a plastics unit in Ahmedabad. This was the beginning of Adani`s venture into global trading by beginning to import polyvinyl chloride which is a key raw material for manufacturing plastics.
Education
He studied at Gujarat University but only till his second year for a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce as he was a university dropout.
Career
In 1988 Gautam Adani established Adani Exports limited that raded in variety power and agricultural commodities. Eventually, Adani group became a globally integrated infrastructure player with businesses spanning coal trading, coal mining, oil & gas exploration, ports, multi-modal logistics, power generation & transmission and gas distribution. It is the largest private thermal and solar power producer of the country. It is also, the first company in India to obtain the supercritical technology. Adani's entrepreneurial and ambitious vision along with rigorous hard work made the Adani Group one of the fastest growing professionally owned enterprises in India.
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Quotations:
"I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee"