Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among the CEOs and celebs set to attend a 3-day pre-wedding party being thrown by an Indian tycoon worth $113 billion

2024-02-29T14:23:42Z

Photo illustration of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani. — Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, a son of the billionaire Mukesh Ambani.

A son of the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is due to get married in July.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among those set to attend the pre-wedding celebrations this weekend.
The three-day celebration is set to take place in India.

Some of the world’s top business leaders are expected to attend the pre-wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani in India.

He’s a son of the billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the chair of the Fortune 500 company Reliance Industries. The elder Ambani has an estimated net worth of $113 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.

While the younger Ambani is due to get married to Radhika Merchant in July, the celebrations are set to kick off this weekend. Tech heavyweights such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among the 1,200 guests expected to attend the festivities being put on by his father, The Guardian reported.

The star-studded list of invitees also includes Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Samsung Electronics’ executive chair, Jay Y. Lee, The Times of India reported.

Rihanna and the illusionist David Blaine are set to perform at the event, Reuters reported.

Here’s a look at some of the other business chiefs and celebrities rumored to be attending the celebrations.

Bill Gates, Microsoft’s cofounder

Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The elder Ambani’s wife, Nita, joined forces with Gates last year when her Reliance Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled an initiative to support 1 million women entrepreneurs.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss

mark zuckerberg pointing — Mark Zuckerberg, now terminally online like the rest of us.

Mark Zuckerberg, now terminally online like the rest of us.

Facebook invested nearly $6 billion for a minority stake in Jio Platforms, whose parent company is Reliance Industries, in 2020, Forbes reported.

Zuckerberg held a virtual discussion with the elder Ambani in 2020 as part of a Facebook Fuel for Indiaevent, where the pair discussed how technology could boost economic progress.

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s CEO

Pichai has crossed paths with the elder Ambani before, as the pair both attended the White House’s State Dinner for India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, in June, video footage from the event shared by The Tribune showed.