Ananda Krishnan

$5.5B

$192.3M (-3.4%)

as of 10/04/24

About Ananda Krishnan

Ananda Krishnan is a Harvard Business School grad and former oil trader.

His holdings include stakes in telecom outfit Maxis, media firm Astro Malaysia Holdings and oilfield services-provider Bumi Armada.

Krishnan's Indian telecom firm, Aircel, in which he had invested an estimated $7 billion, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2018 and was taken over by reconstruction firm UV Asset Reconstruction.

His Kia Ora Stud farm in New South Wales merged with a neighboring stud farm, Vinery Stud, in 2023 to become one of the largest thoroughbred operations in Australia.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Malaysia

Source of wealth

Telecoms, media, oil-services

Residence

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/01/38 (age 86)

Number of children

Education

Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Melbourne University

Self-made

self-made

Ananda Krishnan’s fortune is worth

92K

troy ounces of gold

85K

median U.S. household

55K

median U.S. income

0.11%

U.S. credit card volume

0.022%

GDP of the United States

0.016%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

His only son is a Buddhist monk in Thailand.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

MALAYSIA | 6399-MY

Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd

MALAYSIA | 5210-MY

Bumi Armada Bhd

MALAYSIA | 6012-MY

Maxis

COLOMBO | SLTL.N0000-LK

Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd.