- Sunil Mittal
Infobox_Celebrity
name = Sunil Bharti Mittal
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caption = Sunil Bharti Mittal (left) with James J. Schiro andAngela Merkel
birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|10|23|mf=y
birth_place = Rajasthan,India
occupation =Chairman andCEO ofBharti Airtel
salary = 125000/-
networth = gainUS$11.8 billion (2008)
spouse =
children = 3
alma_mater =Punjab University
residence =Delhi
website = [http://www.airtel.in www.airtel.in]
footnotes =Sunil Bharti Mittal, born
October 23 ,1957 is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of the Bharti group. TheUS$ 5 billion turnover company runs India's largestGSM -basedmobile phone service.Bharti Group
The son of a politician, Sunil Mittal is from the town of Ludhiana in Punjab. He has built the Bharti group, along with two siblings, into India's largest mobile phone operator in just ten years. The UK based telecommunication giant,
Vodafone and Singapore'sSingTel both own stakes in the recently renamed flagship companyBharti Airtel . The group also has partnerships withAxa for insurance and with theRothschild family for exporting fruits and vegetables.He has been Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Group since October 2001.
Entrepreneurial Ventures
Residing in Delhi, he is married, with three children. A first generation entrepreneur, he started his first business in 1976 at the age of 18, with a capital investment of Rs 20,000 (U$1500) borrowed from his father. His first business was to make crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers. [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397979/index2.htm]
In 1980 he sold his bicycle parts and yarn factories and moved to
Mumbai . [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397979/index2.htm]In 1982 he became the exclusive dealer for
Suzuki Motors 's portable electric-powergenerators imported from Japan. The importing of telecom equipment were banned by theIndian Government as ITI (Indian Telecom Industry ) monopoly practices & sole OEM for Department of Telecommunication.Fact|date=October 2007He established the first company to manufacture push button telephones in India. He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to identify the mobile telecom business as a major growth area and launched services in the city of Delhi and the National Capital Region in the year 1995.
Philanthropic activities
Bharti Enterprises joined hands with the
All India Football Federation and pumped in over a hundred crore rupees to help the country attain global standards in the sport. Bharti signed a MoU with the AIFF, which aims to create a comprehensive National Football Development Programme and working for globalisation of Indian football, in an attempt to make it to a World Cup finals. As a first step, the telecom company will start a world-class football academy, to be named 'Bharti-AIFF Academy' with an investment of more than Rs.100 crores, to be set-up either inHaryana orGoa . Mr. Mittal said he wants a "football revolution" in the country and is ready to invest "any amount of money" necessary for providing a world-class academy in IndiaTie-Up with Wal-Mart
In November 2006, he struck a joint venture deal with
Wal-Mart , the US retail giant, to start a number of retail stores across India.In July 2006, he attracted many key executives from
Reliance ADAG , NIS Sparta and created Bharti ComtelAwards
Sunil has received several awards including:
* Transforming India Leader of the year 2008.
*GSMA Chairman's Award 2008
*Padma Bhushan in 2007, from thePresident of India
* Asia Businessman of the Year,Fortune Magazine 2006 [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397979/index.htm?postversion=2007011714]
* Telecom Person of the Year, Voice & Data, 2006
* CEO of the year 2005, at theFrost and Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT awards 2006 [http://www.blonnet.com/2006/06/19/stories/2006061902370200.htm]
* Best Asian Telecom CEO, Telecom Asia Awards 2005
* Best CEO, India, Institutional Investor, 2005
* Business Leader Of The Year,Economic Times , 2005
* Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2004,Ernst & Young External links
* [http://birlaa.com/2008/05/14/bharti-airtel-mtn-merger/ Airtel - MTN Merger]
* [http://www.FieldFresh.in Bharti's agri-venture with Rothschild family]
* [http://www.BhartiAirtel.in Sunil Mittal's Telecommunications Company]
* [http://www.indiatelecom.info/mittal.htm Sunil Mittal Profile and Photographs]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6090612.stm BBC News: Who is Sunil Mittal?]
* [http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/telecommunications/200701311742.htm India PRwire: Sunil B. Mittal chosen for Padma Bhushan Award]
* [http://deshgujarat.com/2007/04/03/speech-by-sunil-bharti-mittal-at-nirma-university-ahmedabadmp3/ Sunil Mittal's address to youths & students in mp3]
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