Ananda Krishnan (CEO- Maxis Communications &

MEASAT) : $8.1 billion

Ananda Krishnan holds an MBA from Harvard University in 1964. Prior to that, he received his
education from Vivekananda Tamil School and Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur. He attended
University of Melbourne, Australia to complete his degree.

Ananda currently owns 2 of the biggest communications companies in Malaysia; Maxis

Communications & MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems. Maxis is currently the biggest cellular
phone company in Malaysia with more than 5 millions subscribers and about 30% of Malaysia's
market share.

MEASAT currently has 2 communication satellites navigating the earth, and offers 30 television
channels and 16 radio channels. The 3rd satellite is said to being launched but is yet to be
confirmed. His satellite TV operations now include Indonesia, India, Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam
and Taiwan.Apart from that, Ananda Krishnan owns substantial shareholder-ship in Tanjong Plc,
which interest in entertainment industry like Tanjong Golden Village Cinemas. Ananda's strength
lies in his ability to appreciate and take advantage of new technology discoveries and make them
work in his way. His intelligent, vision and leadership has enabled him to continue leading the
pack in the Malaysian's rich-list for many years.

In his course of life, he has been contributing huge sums of energy and money for the charity and
foundations. He has donated as much as RM160 millions towards developing and providing
education opportunities for Bumiputra in Malaysia.Ananda Krishnan is married with 3
children.MANY words have been used to describe T. Ananda Krishnan - enigmatic, daring, bold,
shrewd, down-to-earth - the list goes on. Fortune magazine, in a 2001 article, aptly called him
"Kuala Lumpur's Mr Big".With both his hands in many cookie jars, he has chartered his name, not
only in Malaysia, but across the continents.Said to have an extraordinary entrepreneurial flair and
inventiveness,Ananda started out as an oil trader, setting up Exoil Trading which went on to
purchase oil drilling concessions in various countries.He progressed to gaming in Malaysia, stud
farming in Australia, running cartoon animation studios in California and Manila, and making a
series of investments in private companies from Hong Kong to the Channel Islands.Diversity was
his motto. He got involved in the multimedia industry in the early 90s and developed other interests
in entertainment, satellite, oil, power, shipping, telecommunications, property and gaming.He has
a string of multiplex theatres in Malaysia which offers movies on the bigger screen.His
entertainment company holds more than 800 movie titles. He also owns the world's largest
Chineselanguage movie library, Celestial Pictures.Today, Ananda has businesses spread all over
the globe, including the United States and Japan.His businesses are varied. In the Philippines, he
produced children's cartoons at the Philippine Animation Studios. He has also worked on Datuk
Lat's Malaysian cartoon series for the international market.

Here at home, he is probably most known as the key force behind the building of the world's tallest
structure, which is also one of thelargest real estate developments in the world - the Petronas Twin
Towers.His little black book includes names like Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch and Maurice
Greenberg, not to mention veteran rock star Sir Bob Geldof, with whom he mounted the Live Aid
charity concert in 1985 in London and Philadelphia to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine
victims.Dominic Armstrong, head of regional research for ABN AMRO, was quoted in an
interview as saying: "It's not so much Malaysia that you're backing, it's Ananda. He is a worldclass
businessman who happens to be Malaysian." Now, Malaysia's richest man, who was reported by
Fortune magazine this year as worth a staggering RM8.77 billion, controls Tanjung Plc, Maxis
Communications Bhd and Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd which operates the
popular Astro satellite network, all via his private investment vehicle,

Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd.

He collaborated with American geologist Tom Cantwell to purchase the rights to drill in Indonesia,
the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Egypt, the North Sea and the US. They are said to have had more than
2.5 million hectares (1996 figures) under lease.One of his well remembered business successes
was when he secured a RM2.8 billion loan in Sept 20, 2001 for Maxis, the largest corporate loan
since the 1997/98 financial crisis, from Japan, the Netherlands and Canada.Ananda Krishnan, or
AK, as he is also known, is a man of humble beginnings.

The son of a senior clerk in the civil service, this determined character achieved world renowned
success which began with education at the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur.He then pursued
his studies at Melbourne University in Australia, where he was introduced to horses by his college
mates, as all his friends' fathers bred horses.It was said that his first business venture while still a
student at theuniversity was a small betting operation. Apart from that, he also worked in a radio
station and edited the college paper.He took part in plays, one of them the Merchant of Venice,
and a biweekly discussion programme over radio.After gaining his Bachelor of Arts (Honours), he
moved on to Harvard University for a Masters in Business Administration in 1964.Although he
has been hugely successful in business, he has remembered others of lesser means.More recently
in June, companies under him pledged RM160 million to various education funds in the
country.Even though there are many words to describe Ananda Krishnan, at the top of it all is
Malaysian.