Ajay Kalsi is a first generation entrepreneur. He has a portfolio of companies in a range of business sectors including oil and gas, footwear premium brands, commodity trading, real estate and business process outsourcing.

Ajay Kalsi Founded Indus Gas Ltd and serves as its Chief Executive Officer

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. He also serves as Group Chairman of Focus Energy Limited. He has been Executive Director

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 of Indus Gas Ltd since April 3, 2008 and serves as a Director of Focus Energy Limited. Ajay Kalsi served as a Director of Phoenix International Ltd. from April 29, 2006 to December 2, 2006. He is an active member of World Economic Forum

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, where he has been designated as "Global Leader of Tomorrow".

As per Forbes

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 Mar 2011 rankings, Ajay Kalsi's net worth is $1.7 Billion; making him the 33rd richest person in India & 736th richest person in the world.

Early life

Ajay Kalsi is B.Sc (Economics

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) from the London School of Economics

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 and M. Phil (Economics

Economics

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) from Cambridge University.