Akshata Murthy Height, Weight, Family, Spouse, Education, Biography

Publish date: 2024-05-22

Akshata Murthy Quick Info
Height	5 ft 6 in
Weight	58 kg
Year of Birth	1980
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Spouse	Rishi Sunak

Akshata Murthy is an Indian fashion designer, entrepreneur, and businessperson who has owned, since 2015, a 0.93% stake in the Indian multinational IT company Infosys which was founded by her father N. R. Narayana Murthy in July 1981. Her wealth and her status as a non-domiciled UK resident (which temporarily entitles her to pay no tax on her income outside Britain, subject to an annual payment of £30,000) with Indian citizenship became the topic of much debate and speculation in the British media in 2022. This was because she was married to British politician Rishi Sunak who was serving as the chancellor of the exchequer of the United Kingdom at that time and the country was going through a ‘cost of living’ crisis. Another factor in this discussion was the fact that she was wealthier than Queen Elizabeth II and was not paying tax in the UK on her unremitted income from Infosys dividends.

Born Name

Akshata Murthy

Nick Name

Akshata

Age

Akshata Murthy was born in the year 1980.

Born Place

Hubli, Karnataka, India

Residence

London, England, United Kingdom

Nationality

Education

Akshata studied economics and French at Claremont McKenna College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She then attained a diploma in clothes manufacturing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, a private for-profit college with multiple campuses in California.

Thereafter, she joined Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. She graduated from there with an MBA degree.

Occupation

Fashion Designer, Entrepreneur, Businessperson

Family

Father – N. R. Narayana Murthy (Founder of Infosys, Former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Mentor of Infosys, Padma Vibhushan Awardee)
Mother – Sudha Murthy (née Kulkarni) (Businesswoman, Educator, Author, Philanthropist, Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Padma Shri Awardee)
Siblings – Rohan Murty (Younger Brother) (Founder of the Murty Classical Library of India, Former Executive Assistant at the Chairman’s Office at Infosys)
Others – Lakshmi Venu (Ex-Sister-in-Law) (Business Executive, Joint Managing Director of Sundaram Clayton, an Aluminium and Magnesium Castings Manufacturer for the Automotive Industry), Aparna Krishnan (Sister-in-Law), Shrinivas Kulkarni (Maternal Uncle) (Astrophysicist), R.H. Kulkarni (Maternal Grandfather) (Surgeon), Vimala Kulkarni (Maternal Grandmother), Padavathamma Murthy (Paternal Grandmother), N. Rama Rao (Paternal Grandfather), Yashvir Sunak (Father-in-Law) (General Practitioner), Usha Sunak (Mother-in-Law) (Pharmacist), Sanjay Sunak (Brother-in-Law) (Psychologist), Raakhi Sunak (Sister-in-Law) (Head of Humanitarian, Peacebuilding, UN Funds & Programmes at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, a Department of the Government of the United Kingdom)

Net Worth

In May 2022, Akshata Murthy and her husband Rishi Sunak’s combined net worth was $911 million according to The Sunday Times’ ‘UK Rich List’.

Build

Slim

Height

5 ft 6 in or 167.5 cm

Weight

58 kg or 128 lbs

Boyfriend / Spouse

Akshata has dated –

Rishi Sunak (2009-Present) – Akshata got married to British politician Rishi Sunak (serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (as of May 2022) since 2020) in August 2009 in a ceremony held in Bangalore, India. They had first met while they were both students at Stanford University and got engaged in Half Moon Bay. They have 2 daughters together named Krishna Sunak and Anoushka Sunak.

Race / Ethnicity

Asian (Indian)

Hair Color

Black

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Slender frame
Center-parted, shoulder-length, straight hair
Affable smile

Akshata Murthy Facts

Akshata was primarily raised by her paternal grandparents as both her parents were deeply involved in looking after the IT company Infosys in its early years. When she was about 2 years old, her parents moved her to Mumbai.

In 2007, she joined the Dutch cleantech firm Tendris as its marketing director. She left the role about 2 years later to start her fashion firm.

In 2013, she co-founded the Indian venture capital fund Catamaran Ventures with her husband Rishi Sunak. She had served as a director at the firm.

She has held shares in some of the British chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant businesses, a nanny agency called Koro Kids, and a gym operator called Digme Fitness.

As of October 2022, she was having 0.9% stake in Infosys.

In 2022, she was also the Director at 3 companies viz., Catamaran Ventures (Murthy family’s main investment entity), Digme Fitness (London-based fitness company), and New & Lingwood (English outfitter). At that time, she was also having direct holdings in a minimum of 6 UK firms.

In 2022, Akshata Murthy and Rishi Sunak became the richest-ever occupants of 10 Downing Street (the official residence of the UK PM). At that time, the couple’s combined net worth was reported to be $837 million which was more than Britain’s monarch which also happened for the first time.

In March 2019, Akshata had invested in the childcare firm Koru Kids.

In July 2023, Akshata was ranked No. 1 in Tatler magazine’s “Britain’s best-dressed 2023” list.

Featured Image by Akshata Murthy / Instagram

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