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Indian businessman and Chairman of Adani Group, was born in 1962, June 24 in Ahmadabad, India to a Gujarati Jain Family.

He did his schooling from the Seth C. N. Vidyalya school in Ahmadabad and enrolled at Gujarat University. Later he dropped his studies and at the age of 18 came to Mumbai to make living. He worked as a diamond sorter for two years and at the age of 20, he started his own diamond brokerage outfit. After one year, his elder brother Munshkhbhai opened a plastic unit in Ahmadabad and handed over the responsibility to him. Soon, he began global trading by importing important raw material of manufacturing plastic, Polyvinyl Chloride. The business grew tremendously and today Adani Group is multi-billion dollar company that diversified its interests in Energy Logistics, infrastructure and Oil and Gas Exploration. He purchased Beechcraft jet in 2005 and after two years he purchased Hawker in 2007. Since 2007, he has been the Chief Executive officer of Mundra and Special Economic Zone Limited.

Gautam Adani (Gujarati: ; born 24 June 1962) is an Indian entrepreneur and self-made billionaire who is the Chairman of Adani Group. The Adani Group is 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. [2] With a business experience of more than 33 years, Gautam Adani is a first generation entrepreneur who has led the Adani group from a modest background to create a $8 billion professionally-managed empire in a relatively short period of time.[3] He is said to be among the 100 most influential businessmen worldwide in shipping trade and developing shipping related infrastructure. He has also been recognized for establishing the modern Mundra port which was selected as the best port in 2006 by the oldest and the most influential British publication for shipping business, Lloyd. [4]

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1 Early Life 2 Personal Life 3 Activism 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Early Life

Gautam Adani was born into a Gujarati Jain family on 24th June 1962 in the Seth ni Pol area located in Ratanpol in Ahmedabad. He is the son of Shantilal and Shanta Adani and has seven siblings. His parents had migrated from the town of Tharad in the northern part of Gujarat in search of livelihood. Gautam Adani went to the Seth C N Vidyalaya School and later admitted at Gujarat University for a bachelor's Degree in Commerce but ultimately dropped out. Later at the age of 18, Gautam went to Mumbai to make a living.

[edit] Personal Life


Gautam Adani is married to Dr Priti Adani who is a Bachelor in dental surgery and the Chairperson of Adani Foundation, the CSR arm of the Adani Group. They have two sons. The elder one, Karan Adani is a graduate from the Purdue University, USA and is presently the Executive Director of Adani Ports and SEZ, recently got engaged with Paridhi and the younger son is Jeet Adani. [5] [6] ==Career or Business Choosing not to join his fathers textile unit in Ahmedabad, Gautam Adani instead preferred to move to Mumbai to try his luck. He opened his innings by working as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers for 2 years and then went on to set up his own diamond brokerage business in Mumbai, India. The trading initiative was a success. The young Gautam made his first million within a year, at the age of 20, a big deal during the 80s. This success caught the eye of Mahasukh Adani, Gautams elder brother and a self-made entrepreneur. Mahasukh called Gautam back to their hometown Ahmedabad - a city in the western part of India, to run his newly purchased plastic factory. Soon, Gautam began commodity trading by importing Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a key raw material for manufacturing plastic. While working at his brother's plastics unit, Gautam Adani gained valuable working experience as he learnt the intricacies of commodity trade.
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The Adani Group had a quiet beginning, but Gautams entrepreneurial and ambitious vision, and rigorous hard work along with his talented and experienced management team made Adani Group one of the fastest growing professionally managed conglomerates in India. [5] In 1988, he established Adani Exports Limited (now known as the Adani Enterprises Ltd), the flagship company of the Adani Group, that traded in a variety of power and agricultural commodities. The economic liberalization in 1991 fuelled the rapid growth of the business and the huge profitability of Adani Exports provided further capital for Gautam Adani to expand his business. In 1993, the Gujarat government invited private companies to run the Mundra Port and in 1995 the contract was given to Adani Group. Today, Mundra Port is the largest Private Sector port in India, with capability of handling close to 80 million tonnes of cargo per annum.

Gautam Adani is also the Founder and Promoter of Adani Power Ltd (APL), a power business arm of Adani Group. Adani Power has delivered thermal power plant with capacity of 4620 MW, which has been a sole reason for the company to gain the prestige of being the largest private thermal power producer of the country. Adani Power has its head office in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and is ranked #334 in top companies in India in Fortune India 500 list of 2011. Adani Power enjoys the status of being Indias largest solar power producer with capacity 40MW. At present, APL maneuvers five supercritical boilers of 660MW each at Mundra, Gujrat in addition to a mega solar plant of 40MW at Bitta Naliya in Kutch District, Gujrat. The thermal power plant at Mundra is the single thermal power plant in the country that has won the certification by UN under CDM. Besides, it is the first company in India to obtain the supercritical technology. [7]

[edit] Activism
In 1996, Gautam Adani set up the Adani Foundation as the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the Adani Group for undertaking activities to ensure sustainable development and create harmony with people residing in the neighborhood of the Group's operations. The Group invests ~1% of profit in community initiatives through the Adani Foundation. Adani Foundation operates in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh and runs projects in four key areas: [5] [8]

Education- especially primary education Medical- clinics and HIV programmes Environmental Protection- typically at the local community level Charitable Activities- supporting poor villagers and promoting the rights of women

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