Falguni Nayar

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Falguni Nayar
Born (1963-02-19) 19 February 1963 (age 61) [1]
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Other namesFalguni Sanjay Nayar [2]
Education MBA Finance
Alma mater
Occupation Founder & CEO of Nykaa
Employer Kotak Mahindra Bank (1993–2012)
Spouse
Sanjay Nayar
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(m. 1987)​
Children2

Falguni Sanjay Nayar (born 19 February 1963) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman, [3] who is the founder and CEO of the beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa, formally known as FSN E-Commerce Ventures which is an acronym of her own name. [4] [5] Nayar is one of two self-made female Indian billionaires.

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Early life and education

Nayar was born and raised in a Gujarati family in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father was a businessman and ran a small bearings company, assisted by her mother. [6] She is a graduate in B.Com from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1985 batch). [6] [7]

Career

In 1993, Nayar joined Kotak Mahindra Group after leaving her consultant job at A. F. Ferguson & Co. At Kotak Mahindra, she was initially the head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team, before going on to open institutional equities offices in London and New York City. In 2001, she returned to India. [8] [9] [10] In 2005, she was appointed as the managing director of Kotak Mahindra Capital, the investment banking unit, and director of Kotak Securities, the institutional equities arm. She quit her job in 2012. [7] [11] [12]

In April 2012, at the age of 50, [13] she founded Nykaa with $2 million of her own money. [14] Nykaa was worth $2.3 billion as of 2021 bringing Nayar's net worth to an estimated $1.1 billion. Nayar is one of two self-made female Indian billionaires, the other being Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. [15] Nykaa listed at $13 billion valuation on 10 November 2021. Soon after Nykaa went public, Nayar became the wealthiest self-made Indian woman, with her net worth rising to $6.5 billion. [14] [16] In 2022, Nayar made her debut in the Forbes India Rich List at rank 44. [17]

Personal life

Falguni Nayar married Sanjay Nayar in the year 1987, whom she met at business school. He is the CEO of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts India. [18] [19] [20] [6] They have two children – Adwaita Nayar and Anchit Nayar, who are twins; [21] Adwaita is the CEO of Nykaa Fashion whereas Anchit heads the retail and e-commerce divisions. [22]

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