Anil Ambani inducts sons Anmol, Anshul on Reliance Infra board as directors; retd Lt Gen Syed Alta Hasnain too joins board
FirstpostA company spokesman attributed the induction of the junior Ambanis to respect the wishes of the shareholders who during the recent AGM asked the management to get fresh blood into the company by bringing them on board. The company has also appointed retired Army officer Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain as an independent director on the board of the company, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Anmol has been on the board of Reliance Capital since August 2016, while the younger one, Anshul joined the group this January, and has been actively involved in all operations of RInfra, including a special focus on the defence business, working closely with the group chairman and Punit Garg, executive director, the company said. During the recent AGMs, Ambani had said the group was shuttering the two lending arms of Reliance Capital-Reliance Commercial Finance and Reliance Home Finance with a cumulative asset of over Rs 25,000 crore—by December. On Monday, the group nearly exited RCap’s AMC business–which used to lead the market for long and now has gone down a distant fifth slot—to Nippon Life of Japan which now owns 75 percent in the company and has since been renamed as Nippon Indian Mutual Fund for collective investment of Rs 6,000 crore.