AsiaOne – August 2018

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PERSON OF THE YEAR

BY RICHA SANG

His splendid journey is a compendium of various

milestones ranging from a humble background of a

small trader to rising up the ladder as the head of a

business empire with interests in resources, logistics

and energy; Mr. Gautam Adani has come a long way

and is looking ahead towards a glorious future

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The Undisputed

Master of All

Trades

teering The Adani Group – one of India’s leading business

houses with revenue of more than $11 billion – as the

Founder and Chairman, Mr. Gautam Adani is an embodiment

of earnestness who never shies away from taking the plunge

and putting his best foot forward in his every endeavour. Established

by him as a trading Company in 1988, the Adani Group’s foray into

infrastructure building began a decade later in 1998 and in the span

of two decades, the Group has achieved massive feats such as being

India’s largest ports and logistics business, largest private power and

transmission player, largest solar power generation and manufacturing

company, largest integrated coal management company, and largest

agriculture business.

“SOMETIMES,

BEING TOO

EDUCATED TENDS

TO MAKE AN

INDIVIDUAL MORE

RISK-AVERSE

— A TRAIT

ALIEN TO AN

ENTREPRENEUR’S

CORE DNA”

GAUTAM ADANI