Lalit Jalan

Basic Information

Name Lalit Jalan
Category Infrastructure
Nationality Indian
Alma Mater St. Xaviers School
MBA (Finance), The Wharton School,
MS (Computer Science), Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
B. Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Occupation Director of Corporate Strategy and Affairs of Reliance Infrastructure
Net Worth US$ 6.6 billion as on September 2017
Birthday 23 September 1956
Birth Place Kolkata
Age 62
Spouse Anita Jalan
Father
Mother
Children Akshay Jalan & Varun Jalan

Awards and Honors

Name(Year) Awarding organisation
Recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful CEO(2009) Economic Times
IITK@50 at the Golden Jubilee Alumni Convention IIT, Kanpur
one of the IIT system’s top 15 achievers(2003) 1st PAN IIT meet in California
Winner of the Directors Honors and Dean’s List Wharton School of Business

Career:-

  • Lalit Jalan started his career at General Electric as a Strategic Planner where he learnt the ropes from Jack Welch at his peak.
  • After 2 years, he joined his own family venture – ‘Jalan Brothers'(Jalan Brothers Private Limited, Jalan Properties Private Limited, Jalan Infosystems Private Limited, Jalan Reality Private Limited, Data Ware Private Limited, Sunrise Engineering Private Limited, Shree Amrit Properties and Investment Private limited, Devine Dealers Private Limited, Data Management Systems Private Limited and Integrated Bureau and Maintenance Private Limited)
  • In 1995, Jalan joined Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as the Head of Polypropylene business. Jalan made the fastest ‘billion dollar hit’ in the industry by ramping up the business from zero to a billion dollars in 42 months flat, despite having no background in the petrochemicals industry.
  • He also served as Head of the E-business at RIL.
  • He joined as CEO of RInfra’s Delhi power distribution company.He was the youngest ever CEO(Reliance Infrastructure) at a Reliance company.

Source: Wikipedia

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