Akash Ambani is an Indian businessman and son of Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian and the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited. Following the footsteps of his father, Akash has taken leadership roles at various firms under the group. Along with his twin sister Isha, he was inducted into the board of directors of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail in 2014. He is the chief of strategy at Jio Infocomm and was actively involved in building the network architecture and developing various applications and services like JioTV, JioCinema and JioChat. Ahead of a full commercial release, he and his sister launched Jio services to the company employees in December 2015, at an event in which brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan and renowned composer A. R. Rahman performed. In July 2017, the twins debuted before RIL shareholders and presented a demo of the cheap 4G-enabled JioPhone handset.
