Sunil Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, agri and food besides other ventures.

  • Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal‘s Bharti Airtel is among India’s largest mobile phone operators with more than 400 million customers.
  • Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, is embroiled in a bruising price war with Mukesh Ambani‘s Reliance Jio.
  • Mittal also owns Airtel Payments Bank, a niche bank, in a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank, controlled by fellow billionaire Uday Kotak.
  • Mittal’s son Kavin runs SoftBank-backed messaging service Hike valued at $1.5 billion.