Sunil Mittal

About

Chairman and CEO of Bharti Enterprises, a multibillion-dollar company that ran India's largest GSM mobile phone service.

Before Fame

He started his first company, a bicycle parts manufacturer, with money borrowed from his father.

Trivia

He ran a push-button telephone assembly in the mid-1980s and prophetically saw the mobile telecom sector as a growing field.

Family Life

He had three children with his wife Nyna.

Associated With

He and Ratan Tata, another Indian entrepreneur who founded what became a billion-dollar business, were contemporaries.