Akshata Murty Biography – Akshata Murty Wiki
Akshata Murty is an Indian fashion designer based in Britain. She is best known for being the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy. Her father Nayarana is the founder of the Indian multinational IT company Infosys, and Sudha Murty. She is a stakeholder in Infosys holding up to 0.93% stake.
She went to study at Baldwin Girls’ High School, Bangalore, and later studied economics and French at Claremont McKenna College in California; she has a diploma in clothes manufacturing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.
Following Stanford, she worked as marketing director for a Dutch technology incubator fund in San Francisco, before quitting to launch her own fashion label, Akshata Designs in 2007 as reported by The Guardian. After two years, she stated that she could not imagine being engaged in anything else apart from the business venture. However, in a span of three years her brand collapsed in 2012. The following year in 2013, she became the director of the venture capital fund Catamaran Ventures. She co-founded, with her husband Rishi Sunak, the London branch of the Indian firm which is owned by her father, N. R. Narayana Murthy. Her husband Sunak transferred his shares to her shortly before being elected as the Conservative MP for Richmond in 2015.
Since 2015, she has owned a 0.93% share of her father’s technology firm Infosys, valued at around £700 million in April 2022, and shares in two of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant businesses, Wendy’s restaurants in India, and New & Lingwood, a men’s apparel store which measures Etonians for tailcoats and silk dressing gowns, Koro Kids and Digme Fitness. She is a director of Digme Fitness and the Soroco that her brother Rohan Murty co-founded.
Akshata Murty Age
Her birth name is Akshata Narayan Murty. She was born in April 1980 in Hubballi, India.
Akshata Murty Husband
She is married to her husband, Rishi Sunak since 2009. Her husband Sunak is the British Prime Minister and the leader of the Conservative Party.
While she was studying for her MBA at Stanford, it was there that she met Rishi Sunak, a Southampton-born student there on a prestigious Fulbright scholarship. The couple married four years later in Bengaluru, in a lavish two-day ceremony attended by the likes of Indian cricket legend Anil Kumble. They share two daughters.
Akshata Murty Children
She has two children with her husband Sunak. They are Krishna and, Anoushka.
Akshata Murty Family
She is the daughter of N.r. Narayana Murthy, and her mother Sudha Murty. She has a brother, Rohan Murty. She was brought up by her paternal grandparents after her parents worked to launch their technology company, Infosys. Her mother is recognized as the first female engineer to work for India’s then-largest car maker; she is now a philanthropist. When she was two, her parents moved her to Mumbai.
Akshata Murty Net Worth
Murty’s wealth now comes from her 0.91 percent stake in Infosys, which is valued at roughly £690m – a figure which is said to make her richer than Queen Elizabeth II. Her personal wealth became the topic of British media discussion in 2022 in the context of her claim of non-domiciled status in the UK. Murty announced that she would retain her non-domiciled status but pay UK tax on her worldwide income voluntarily.
Akshata Murty Nationality
She is an Indian citizen. She was born and brought up in India. She currently resides in Britain.
