Isha Ambani: All eyes set on the billionaire bride-to-be

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Isha Ambani: All eyes set on the billionaire bride-to-be

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Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani's daughter Isha is the much talked about bride of 2018.

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Isha Ambani,26, and her twin brother Akash are the first borns of Mukesh and Nita Ambani.Isha's father is the richest in India with a net worth of $40.1 bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking as on Dec 30, 2017, and his empire spans telecommunications, retail and ports, besides several ancillary businesses.Her mother, Nita Ambani, is the first lady of India Inc. Besides Reliance's sports ventures, which include the Mumbai Indians cricket team and a joint venture with sports management firm IMG, she chairs the Reliance Foundation, the company's charitable arm. She also looks after the Mumbai K-12 schools named after Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani.

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Isha's twin brother Akash is on the board of Reliance Jio, the group's fast growing telecom venture. He had recently got engaged to Shloka Mehta, daughter of diamantaire Russell Mehta, and will get married soon.Her youngest brother, Anant, has also joined the Reliance Group of Industries.

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She graduated in Psychology and South Asian Studies from Yale University in October 2014. She is pursuing her masters from Graduate School of Business, Stanford. She is expected to finish her studies in June.

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Isha is on the boards of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail and is credited for instilling a culture of youthful dynamism in the business. She worked as a business analyst with management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.She was also at the forefront of Jio's 4G services with her brother Akash and brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan in December 2015.

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She rolled out AJIO, an online fashion retailer, at the 2016 edition of Lakme Fashion Week. She looks after the branding and management segments of AJIO, which is a subsidiary of Reliance Retail. In 2008, Isha Ambani, was ranked 2nd on the Forbes' Youngest Billionaire Heiresses list.