RIL names Mukesh Ambani's twin kids to retail, telecoms unit boards

Zee Media Bureau

Mukesh Ambani scions Isha and Akash have been appointed directors on Board of RIL's telecom arm Reliance Jio and retail venture Reliance Retail respectively.

Earlier in June, Nita Ambani, wife of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, had become the first woman to be appointed on the board of the nation's largest private firm.

The RIL board, headed by Mukesh Ambani, 57, currently has his cousins Nikhil R Meswani and Hital R Meswani. Ramniklal H Ambani, who is the elder brother of Dhirubhai H Ambani, the late Founder Chairman of the company and father of Mukesh, was the other director from the promoter family.

P M S Prasad and P K Kapil are the only non-family executive directors on the company board.