- Category:
- Richest Business › Wall Street
- Net Worth:
- $2 Billion
- Birthdate:
- Jul 23, 1951 (72 years old)
- Birthplace:
- Odisha
- Gender:
- Male
- Profession:
- Businessperson
- Nationality:
- United States of America
What is Ajit Jain's Net Worth?
Ajit Jain is an Indian born employee of Berkshire Hathaway who has a net worth of $2 billion dollars. Ajit Jain was born July 23, 1951 in Orissa, India. He graduated in 1972 from the IIT Kharagpur with a bachelor's degree in engineering Jain worked for IBM in India from 1973 to 1976, then moved to the United States, where he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978. He joined McKinsey & Co., but returned to India in the early 1980s. After a month long courtship, he married Tinku Jain, a girl chosen by his parents. Then he went back to the United States to work for McKinsey. According to Robert P. Miles' book "The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers", Jain said he would not have returned to America, but his wife wanted to move there In 1985 he left McKinsey to work on insurance operations for Buffett. At the time, he said he knew little about the insurance business. Today, Jain is the President of Berkshire Hathaway Insurance group. He is leading Berkshire's Indian insurance market venture. Jain is widely considered to be the heir apparent to Warren Buffet. Many pundits place him as the future CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
