Sunil Bharti Mittal

@Group Ceo of Bharti Enterprise, Birthday and Family

Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur who founded Bharti Enterprises

Oct 23, 1957

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 23, 1957
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Famous: Chairman, Group Ceo of Bharti Enterprise, Philanthropists, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Business People, Telecommunication
  • Spouses: Nyna Mittal
  • Siblings: Rajan Mittal, Rakesh Bharti Mittal
  • Known as: Sunil Mittal
  • Childrens: Eiesha Mittal, Kavin Mittal, Shravin Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal born at

Ludhiana

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Birth Place

He is married to Nyna which whom he has three children: daughter Eiesha and twin sons Kavin and Shravin. Theirs is a close knit family. Mittal is also very close to his brothers, and he had a deep relationship with his father who passed in 1992.

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Personal Life

He was born on 23 October 1957 in an Aggarwal family in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. His father Sat Paul Mittal was a much respected politician. Sunil has two brothers, Rajan Mittal and Rakesh Bharti Mittal.

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Childhood & Early Life

He attended the Wynberg Allen School in Mussoorie for a while before moving on to Scindia School at Gwalior. Later on he enrolled at the Panjab University from where he graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts and Science.

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Childhood & Early Life

Sunil was ambitious and business minded from a young age. He began to import scraps and bicycle parts when he was just 19 and went on to build a small-scale project to manufacture stainless steel sheets.

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Career

Eventually he moved to Mumbai to pursue his business dreams where he started on a small scale, selling his stainless sheets. This experience taught him that he had the potential to become a successful businessman as he was good at making sales and persuading people.

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Career

Along with his brothers he started an import enterprise named Bharti Overseas Trading Company in 1980 and the next year he purchased importing licenses from exporting companies in Punjab.

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He obtained a dealership with Suzuki Motors and imported thousands of their portable electric-powered generators from Japan. Soon his business was thriving and he became a millionaire.

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He faced a crisis when the government banned the import of generators in order to promote manufacture of generators within the country. He had to look for other business avenues now.

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The Fortune Magazine named him the Asia Businessman of the Year in 2006.

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Awards & Achievements

He was honored with the Padma Bhushan—one of the highest civilian awards in India—in 2007.

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Awards & Achievements

Philanthropist of the Year Award was presented to him at The Asian Awards in 2010.

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Awards & Achievements