Akshata Murty is an Indian businesswoman and fashion designer based in Britain. She is the wife of Rishi Sunak, the 57th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of NR Narayana Murthy, who is the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational IT company.
Wiki/Biography
Akshata Murty was born in April 1980 (age 42 years; in 2022) in Hubli, Karnataka. She attended Baldwin Girls High School in Bangalore. He attended Claremont McKenna College, California to complete his degrees in Economics & French. She holds a diploma in Apparel Manufacturing Technology from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, California. Later, he completed his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, California.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 4″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Family
He was born in a Hindu-Brahmin Family.
Parents & Siblings
His father, NR Narayana Murthy, is the co-founder of Infosys, and his mother, Sudha Murthy, is one of the founders of the ‘Infosys Foundation.’ He has a younger brother named Rohan Murty, who is the founder of the ‘Murty Classical Library of India.’
NR Narayana Murty with Rohan and Akshata
Akshata Murty with her parents and brother
Husband & Son
Akshata Murty is married to Rishi Sunak, the 57th Prime Minister of the UK. On 30 August 2009, they had a brief wedding held at Hotel Leela Palace in Bangalore. The wedding was attended by some Indian celebrities like Azim Premji, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Anil Kumble, Nandan M Nilekani, Captain GR Gopinath, Prakash Padukone, Syed Kirmani, Girish Karnad, and many more.
The couple has two daughters, Anoushka Sunak and Krishna Sunak.
Akshata Murty with her Husband and Daughter
Relationships/Affairs
When Akshata Murty was pursuing her studies after graduation, she met Rishi Sunak in California. Soon, they became good friends and started dating each other.
citizenship
Akshata Murty has Indian citizenship. While talking about not having any plans to change her nationality, Akshata’s spokesperson said,
Akshata Murty is a citizen of India, the country of her birth and home of her parents. India does not allow its citizens to hold the citizenship of another country simultaneously.”
Career
Before pursuing his MBA, he worked at Unilever and Deloitte for a short period. After completing her MBA, Akshata joined Tendris, the Dutch cleantech Incubator Fund as marketing director in 2007. She launched her own clothing line in 2009. On starting her own business, she says,
I understand that there may be some curiosity about what I do given my parents’ achievements, but I hope that one day this business can stand on its own two feet and I can speak on its merits rather than anything else. . This is my passion and I can’t imagine being involved in anything other than the business of this venture.”
In 2013, he became a director of Catamaran Ventures. He started working as a member of the Board of Claremont McKenna College and the San Francisco Exploratorium in 2017. He is a director of two companies called New & Lingwood, which is a men’s clothing company, and Digme Fitness, a gym chain.
Controversy
In April 2022, Akshata Murty was questioned about her income tax status in Britain. According to several media reports, he claimed non-resident tax status in the UK which exempted him from paying tax on dividend benefits received from overseas companies. Following that, her husband, Rishi Sunak, faced allegations regarding his wife’s income from Russia, where Murthy’s company Infosys operated even during the Russia-Ukraine War. Later, in a statement, Infosys announced the withdrawal of its services from Russia.
Assets & Real Estate
- A 12-acre Georgian Manor house in the Yorkshire village of Kirby Sigston is worth around £1.5 million. Reportedly, this property is owned by Akshata Murty.
Akshata Murty’s mansion in the Yorkshire village of Kirby Sigston
- A penthouse apartment on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California worth £7.5 million. The property is registered under Akshata’s name.
Akshata Murty’s penthouse apartment on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California
- A mews mansion in Kensington, West London worth £6.6 million. This property is owned by Rishi Sunak.
Akshata Murty’s mansion in Kensington, West London
- A first floor flat in Old Brompton Road, Kensington is worth $300,000. Rishi Sunak owns this property.
Net worth
As of 2022, her collective net worth with her husband Rishi Sunak is estimated to be around $810 million. As of the Sunday Times Rich List 2022, the couple is ranked 222nd on the rich list.
Facts/Trivia
- He was brought up by his grandparents in Hubli while his parents struggled in their professional lives.
- Akshata owns 0.93% of Infosys shares, which is around $700 million.
- She is one of the richest women in the UK. Reportedly, her net worth is higher than the late Queen Elizabeth II, whose net worth is around $460 million.
- Before Rishi Sunak contests the Prime Minister’s election in 2022, Rishi and Akshata reportedly spent $450,000 installing a 40ft swimming pool, gym and outdoor tennis court at their Yorkshire mansion in Kirby Sigston.
- He spells his surname differently from his father’s and drops the ‘h’ from Murthy.
- Reportedly, Akshata has undeclared stake in several other firms in the UK including a joint venture with Amazon India.
- In an interview, recalling a class on work-life balance at Stanford University, she shared how she grew up in one of India’s richest families and said,
What is interesting is the whole discussion about how women need to adjust work life balance, especially in the corporate world. I was a little surprised because I grew up in a family of very strong women… so I never thought that it was just a woman’s job to have this work-life balance. It is the family’s job to have this balance.”
- He holds 50% of Sierra Nevada Restaurants, an Indian firm that runs 4 Wendy’s branches in New Delhi, and he owns 100% of Dolomite Restaurants, a private organization, which holds 11 Indian franchises of British chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain.
- In Sudha Menon’s “Legacy: Letters from eminent parents to their daughters”, there is a letter for Akshata, written by her father. A few lines of the letter are,
Becoming a father changed me in ways I never imagined. I can never go back to being the person I was before. Your arrival in my life brought unimaginable joy and greater responsibility. I am no longer a husband, a son, or an employee promising a fast-growing company. I am a father, who has to fulfill his daughter’s expectations of him at every stage of his life.”
- In an interview, her husband, Rishi Sunak, revealed that he is very organized while Akshata is messy and spontaneous, he said,
I’m very neat, he’s very neat. I’m more organized, he’s more spontaneous. He’s not going to love me for saying this, but I’ll be honest with you, he’s not big on the whole tidying thing. She’s an absolute nightmare, clothes everywhere… and shoes… shoes oh my god.”
- According to sources, Akshata works with artisans living in remote villages in India to create dresses with a blend of Indian and western culture.
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