Anindya Bakrie

He is the eldest grandson of Achmad Bakrie, who founded Bakrie Group in 1942, now known as Bakrie & Brothers.

Anindya Bakrie married Firdani Saugi and has three children.

Anindya Novyan Bakrie (born 10 November 1974), is an Indonesian businessman and investor who is the CEO and President of Bakrie & Brothers, the successor to the Bakrie Group, one of the oldest conglomerates in Indonesia that is now transitioning towards the renewable sector.

Bakrie is the founder and CEO of the Visi Media Asia (VIVA) Group, which owns television stations with news and sports lineups, namely tvOne, entertainment lineups, namely ANTV, and the news portal VIVA.co.id.

He is also the founder of the Bakrie Center Foundation, a platform for his philanthropic activities.

The group supplied the first 52 electric buses for public transport in Jakarta.

Anindya Bakrie was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 10 November 1974, the son of Aburizal Bakrie and Tatty Murnitriati.

He attended Triguna Elementary School and graduated in 1986 before continuing his secondary education at the all-boys Catholic school Pangudi Luhur, both located in Jakarta.

He then studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, a high school in the United States.

Motivated by his interest in finance and technology, as well as his desire to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps in business, Bakrie initially intended to major in economics in college.

However, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, in 1996.

Bakrie began his career as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, in the United States in 1996.

In 1997, his father, Aburizal Bakrie, asked him to return to Indonesia following the 1998 riots.

After receiving his M.B.A from Stanford, he then served as Deputy to Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Bakrie & Brothers.

Bakrie has been involved in various business ventures throughout his career.

He later obtained a Master's degree from the Global Management Immersion Experience program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2001.

He then sought to bridge students to be able to pursue education at Stanford Business School through the Bakrie Center Foundation.

In 2002, he sent a debt restructuring proposal to more than 200 creditors and persuaded them to restructure their debt into equity.

This reduced the debt to zero, even though it meant cutting Bakrie's stake from 60% to 21%.

Bakrie also made content adjustments, changing the mix from individual general programming to focus on family-friendly shows such as quiz programs, children's shows, and football matches.

Bakrie served as the President Director and CEO of PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk from December 2003 to January 2012.

Bakrie Telecom is a publicly listed company in Indonesia that provides CDMA-based wireless telecommunications services, including mobile phones, fixed-line phones, international direct dialing, long-distance calling, internet access, and value-added services.

He also served as a Director of PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk from 2005 to 2007.

In addition to his business ventures, he is also known for his acquisition of English football club Oxford United in 2022 alongside Minister of State Owned Enterprises and Head of the Indonesian Football Association, Erick Thohir.

Bakrie has been involved in the media industry since he joined Cakrawala Andalas Televisi (ANTV) in Indonesia.

He has served as a Director of PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk since 2007 and as a Director of PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Tbk since 2008.

In 2007, he acquired a second TV station, Lativi Media Karya, from businessman and former Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief.

The station was renamed TV One and restructured to focus on news for middle-class viewers.

Together, ANTV and TVOne control about 15.6% of TV advertising expenditure in Indonesia.

In 2011, Bakrie collaborated with Erick Thohir to acquire both TV stations, plus the online news portal Vivanews.

In Visi Media Asia, or the Viva group, Bakrie serves as the chairman and Erick Thohir is the president director.

During his tenure, the company grew to become the largest public CDMA operator in Indonesia, with over 11 million subscribers in 2011.

In 2014, the Bakrie Global Group invested in Series C in Path, a personal social network with active users in Indonesia reaching 4 million people.

Its electric vehicle arm VKTR Teknologi Mobilitas partnered with China’s BYD in 2018 and later made a series of procurement of electric buses that are today plying the Indonesian capital’s roads.

Bakrie is on track to pivot his business group towards sustainable and digital businesses.

One of the group’s business legacies is in coal mining and under Bakrie’s leadership the business group is now transitioning towards the renewable sector.

Past profits accumulated by the Bakrie group from coal mining are now being reinvested into green projects and other efforts towards energy transition.

Bakrie currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was appointed by former Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a Director of the APEC Business Advisory Council.

He is also the co-owner of English League One club Oxford United, alongside Erick Thohir.

However, the Path social networking site was eventually closed on 18 October 2018.