Mukesh Ambani in 1st Fortune 100 Most Powerful Person in Business List

The influential American Fortune magazine has released its first 100 Most Powerful People in Business list. Elon Musk, the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Tesla and SpaceX tops the list, with Mukesh Ambani of India ranked 12th.

The list includes six Indian-born Americans- Microsoft CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella (3rd rank), Alphabet (Google) CEO Sundar Pichai (10th rank), Adobe CEO and chair Shantanu Narayen (52), YouTube CEO Neal Mohan (69 rank), Khosla Ventures managing partner and founder Vinod Khosla(74 rank), and Tarang Amin CEO and founder of e.l.f. Beauty at 94th place.

Mary Barry, CEO and Chairman of American Auto giant General Motors, ranked 9th in the list, is the highest-ranked women's business leader. 

The first Fortune 100 Most Powerful People in Business includes leaders from 40 industries, some in their 30s and some in their 90s. It includes founders of new businesses like Elon Musk and disruptors and innovators.

Mukesh Ambani only Indian on the Fortune List 

Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Mukesh Ambani, with an estimated $100 billion of wealth, is the only Indian businessman on the list. He has been ranked the 12th most powerful business leader in the world.

RIL is India's biggest private sector company, with diversified business interests in petrochemicals, entertainment, telecom, retail etc.

Top 15 Most Powerful Business People in the World

Here is the list of the 15 top business leaders in the world, their companies, and their nationalities.

Number 1. - Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (American)

Number 2- Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of Chip-making company NVIDIA(American)

Number 3- Satya Nadella, CEO and Chairman of Microsoft (Indian-born American).

Number 4- Warren Buffett, CEO and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (American)

Number 5- Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chairman of JP Morgan Chase (American)

Number 6- Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (American)

Number 7-Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Meta (Facebook), an American citizen.

Number 8- Sam Altman, Ceo and co-founder of  OpenAI (American)

Number 9- Mary Barra, CEO and Chairman, General Motors (American)

Number 10- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet (Google), (Indian-born American citizen).

Number 11-Jeff Bezos, Chairman and Founder of Amazon (American).

Number 12- Mukesh Ambani, CMD Reliance Industries Limited, India.

Number 13- Brian Moynihan, CEO and Chairman, Bank of America (American).

Number 14-Ren Zhengfei, CEO and Founder of Huawei (China)

Number 15- Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup (American).