Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani is married to Priti Adani and has two sons, namely, Karan Adani and Jeet Adani. His wife is a dentist and heads Adani Foundation as a Managing Trustee.

Gautam Adani was born on 24 June 1962, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, into a Bania family, to Shantilal and Shanta Adani. He has seven siblings. His family was involved in the textile business.

He was ambitious and determined from a young age. He had little interest in academics and dropped out of school as a teenager. He later attended the Gujarat University but did not stay to complete his degree. While he was interested in business, he had no intention of joining his father’s textile unit.

His entrepreneurial spirit made him leave Ahmedabad and move to Mumbai when he was 18. Possessing just a few hundred rupees, the young man was determined to make it big. He began working as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers and set up his own diamond brokerage business after a couple of years.

His business did well and he became a millionaire by the time he was 20. By this time his elder brother had newly purchased a plastic factory in Ahmedabad and asked Gautam Adani to help him in running it.

Adani returned to Ahmedabad and started working with his brother. He soon began commodity trading by importing Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a key raw material for manufacturing plastic and visited South Korea where he made a deal for importing PVC.

In 1988, he established Adani Exports Limited (now known as the Adani Enterprises Ltd). The company initially dealt in agricultural commodities and power and eventually expanded over the years.

The liberalization and economic reforms of 1991 boosted Adani’s business and increased revenues and profits for his company. The favorable business environment allowed Adani to expand his company rapidly.

Gautam Adani is the founder of the Adani Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate company that deals in businesses in diverse fields, such as, logistics, agribusiness and energy. The group was ranked India's most trusted infrastructure brand by The Brand Trust Report 2015.

The Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) today operates across eight ports in India and is currently constructing a transshipment hub in Kerala. It is India’s first multi-product port-based special economic zone.