Ananda Krishnan

The telecommunications and media mogul behind Maxis, Astro, and the Petronas Twin Towers project, T. Ananda Krishnan is one of Asia's most enigmatic and powerful businessmen — a man who reshaped Malaysia's telecommunications and entertainment landscape in the 1990s and funded the construction of Kuala Lumpur's defining skyline monument. He is the country's second-wealthiest individual.