On the go

“The younger Ambani truly came into his own in 2007. Be it his successful bid for the proposed 4,000-MW Sasan plant from the jaws of Lanco, the bitter spectrum war, or his company Reliance Communications being heralded as the world’s top CDMA player (and now getting a GSM licence for 14 new circles), or his social networking site BigAdda, the R-ADAG Chairman grabbed headlines. While the buzz around Reliance Power’s IPO is palpable, with projects worth Rs 70,000 crore apparently in the kitty, there’s also plenty happening at RCL, the financial services arm. RCL has quietly moved into third place in this space, after ICICI Bank and HDFC. Reliance Entertainment, meanwhile, is looking to leverage the 88,000 km of fibre-optic cables the group has laid across the country, aiming for a convergence of entertainment and telecom. That’s the kind of quickfire scale Anil, 48, goes in for. For the record, the Wharton alumnus also became a rupee trillionaire.