Industry Titans Gautam Adani Founder and Chairman, Adani Group Having established his business empire in 1988, Gautam Adani built Adani Group from a commodity trading firm into a $32bn (revenue) conglomerate that consists of 10 publicly listed companies with interests in ports, airports, power generation and transmission and green energy, among others. Earlier in June, Adani said the group is well positioned to capitalise on opportunities in India’s booming infrastructure sector as spending is expected to surge. The group is betting on the country’s infrastructure spending, which is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 20-25 per cent. Adani Group reportedly plans to invest $15.6bn in the 2024-25 fiscal year ending March, with its renewable energy arm, Adani Green Energy, expected to invest $4.1bn to add six gigawatts of capacity. The group’s corporate social responsibility arm, Adani Foundation, runs pan-India initiatives in critical sectors of education, healthcare, sustainable livelihoods, and community infrastructure development that touch more than 3.4 million lives annually. Related Stories Abu Dhabi, Qatar wealth funds back Adani Energy’s share sale: Reports Billionaire index: Gautam Adani surpasses Mukesh Ambani as India’s richest man Top 10 richest Indians 2023: Mukesh Ambani pips Gautam Adani Adani takes bond brokers on Gujarat trip to instill confidence Billionaire Adani set to be top shareholder in Indian news broadcaster NDTV India’s Adani is first Asian to become world’s third-richest person You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia