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Ajay Piramal is an Indian businessman. In 2010, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US $1.0 Billion making him one of India’s Top 50 richest people. He leads the Piramal Group, a diversified conglomerate with a presence across 100 countries. Under his leadership the Piramal Group evolved from a textile centric business to a USD 2 billion conglomerate with diversified business interests across pharmaceuticals, packaging, financial services and real estate. In 1988, he bought Nicholas Laboratories, an Australian multinational corporation. The company is now ranked in one of top 10 pharma companies, having made a string of overseas acquisitions like the Indian subsidiaries of Roche, Boehringer Mannheim, Rhone Poulenc, ICI and Hoechst Research Centre. India`s first major shopping mall, Crossroads was developed from three redundant Piramal factory buildings in Mumbai. Ajay Piramal led Piramal Enterprises Ltd agreed to buy a 5.5% stake in Vodafone India for Rs. 30.07 billion ($618 million), taking the total stake of the cash-rich drug manufacturer in the mobile telecom firm to 11%. Piramal sits on the board of Directors of Piramal Enterprises Ltd, Piramal Life Sciences Limited, Piramal Glass Ltd., Allergan India Limited, Indiareit Fund Advisors Pvt Ltd., IndiaVenture Advisors Pvt Ltd. and Piramal Sunteck Realty Pvt Ltd. He is Chairman of Pratham, which is the largest non-governmental organisation in the education sector in India, and reaches out to 33 million children through its "Read India" campaign.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PIRAMAL HEALTHCARE LTD (PIHC:Natl India) )〕 ==Positions held in the past== * Member, Hon’ble Prime Minister’s Task Force on Pharmaceuticals & Knowledge-Based Industries constituted by the Government of India. * Member, Hon’ble Prime Minister's Council for Trade & Industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.indiabusinessforum.net/event_2003/speaker_piramal.htm )〕 * Member, Board of Trade Constituted by the Ministry of Commerce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Director Profiles )〕 * Member, Central board of directors of State Bank of India – India's largest commercial bank and is included in the "Fortune 500" companies;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2005 summit on Indian Manufacturing Competitiveness )〕 * Mr. Piramal has been attending the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) by invitation over the last one decade. He was a Member of the World Economic Forum's Governors’ Forum on Healthcare. He has often addressed at the WEF on various topics. * Member of National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which is one of the largest industry associations in India.〔 * Former Chairman of the Drugs and Pharmaceutical Council of CII. (2004 to 2009)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who We Interviewed )〕 * Spokesperson of ‘Help Your Body’, a nationwide public health campaign against chronic disease, launched by former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, in August 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ajay Piramal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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