Akshata Narayan Murty is a UK-based businesswoman, fashion designer and venture capitalist. Murty is the wife of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and is the daughter of Indian businessman and founder of Infosys, N R Narayan Murty and Sudha Murty. Akshata holds a 0.93 per cent stake in India-based IT company Infosys, which makes her one of the wealthiest women in the UK.&nbsp;

Early life and education
 

	Akshata was born in Karnataka&#39;s Hubli in April 1980. She has been raised by her maternal grandparents in a simple middle-class upbringing in Jayanagar. She has one brother, Rohan Murty. Akshata did her schooling at Baldwin Girls&#39; High School. She has studied economics and French at California&#39;s Claremont McKenna College.&nbsp;
 

	She has also done her diploma in clothes manufacturing from the Fashion Institute of Design &amp; Merchandising and a master&#39;s in business administration from Stanford University.&nbsp;
 

	Akshata met Rishi Sunak at Stanford University and the two got married in 2009. The couple has two daughters, two daughters, Anoushka and Krishna, together.&nbsp;
 

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	Akshata joined cleantech firm Tendris as marketing director in 2007. She left the firm two years later to start her own fashion label, which closed in 2012.&nbsp;
 

	She became the director of venture capital fund Catamaran Ventures in 2013 and also co-founded the London branch of Infosys with Sunak.&nbsp;
 

	Sunak transferred his shares of Infosys to Akshata after being elected as the Conservative MP for Richmond in 2015. Akshata owns nearly 0.93 per cent shares, valued at around &pound;700 million in April 2022, of Infosys.
 

	Akshata also has shares in Wendy&#39;s in India and Koro Kids. She is also a director of Digme Fitness, and digital transformation company Soroco, which is co-founded by Rohan Murty.&nbsp;

Akshata Narayan Murty is a UK-based businesswoman, fashion designer and venture capitalist. Murty is the wife of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and is the daughter of Indian businessman and founder of Infosys, N R Narayan Murty and Sudha Murty. Akshata holds a 0.93 per cent stake in India-based IT company Infosys, which makes her one of the wealthiest women in the UK.

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