
Ananda Krishnan was bornon 1 April 1938 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysia. Ananda Krishnan is #227 in List Billionaires People In The World. Ananda Krishnan lost his spot in 2017 as Malaysia's second-richest person amid falling shares of his telecom outfit Maxis and oilfield-services-provider Bumi Armada. He's now No. 3. In 2016 he agreed to merge his debt-laden Indian telecom firm Aircel with Indian billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications. But India's Supreme Court threatened to auction Aircel's spectrum because Krishnan hasn't responded to summons in a long-running federal investigation of how he had acquired Aircel. (Krishnan has denied any wrongdoing). In another setback, Krishnan's key lieutenant, Augustus Ralph Marshall, who is also embroiled in the same case, has left the group in a reportedly acrimonious parting. And Saudi Telecom is said to be mulling the sale of its 16.2% stake in Maxis. Krishnan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. His only son is a Buddhist monk in Thailand.
2009 | $7 Billion |
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2010 | $7.6 Billion |
2011 | $9.5 Billion |
2012 | $9.9 Billion |
2013 | $11.7 Billion |
2014 | $11.3 Billion |
2015 | $9.7 Billion |
2016 | $7.4 Billion |
2017 | $6.5 Billion |
2018 | $7.16 Billion |
In the early 1990s, he began building a multimedia empire that now includes two telecommunication companies – Maxis Communications, MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems and SES World Skies – and has three communication satellites circumnavigating the earth
He first came to prominence by helping to organise the Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof in the mid-1980s
Following that, Krishnan obtained Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, graduating in 1964
Ananda Krishnan was born in 1938 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur's to Tamil parents, who were Sri Lankan origin