Nayla Hayek

Nayla Hayek (born 1951) is a Swiss heiress, businesswoman and horse breeding expert.[1] She is the Chair of the Board of Directors of The Swatch Group and CEO of its subsidiary, the famed luxury jeweler Harry Winston, Inc.

Nayla Hayek
Born
Hayek

1951 (age 68–69)
OccupationBusinesswoman
TitleChair of the Board of Directors, The Swatch Group
CEO, Harry Winston, Inc.
ChildrenMarc A. Hayek
RelativesNick Hayek Jr. (brother)

Early life

Hayek is the daughter of Lebanese-born Swiss businessman Nicolas George Hayek, the late founder of The Swatch Group.[2] She has a younger brother, Nick Hayek Jr.

The Swatch Group

Hayek joined the Board of Director of The Swatch Group in 1995 and became its Chair in 2010, after her father's death.[1]

Hayek became the CEO of Harry Winston, Inc. in May 2013, a few months after The Swatch Group acquired the company.[3] The company bought the world's largest flawless blue diamond The Winston Blue on May 15, 2014.[4]

Horse breeding

Hayek stated that her passion for horses started when she was a child and worked to buy a pony.[5] Since then, she became an international Arabian horse judge[6] and owns over 60 purebred Arabian horses.[7]

Hayek's activity as a horse breeder and expert in Egyptian horses helps the group build and maintain contacts with the Middle East.[8]

Personal

She was married to Alemannic Swiss industrialist Roland Weber and eventually divorced. She and her ex-husband have a son, Dr. Marc Alexander Hayek, who is now on the Executive Group Management Board of the Swatch Group, taking charge of Blancpain, Breguet, Glashutte, Jaquet Droz and Swatch Group Central and South America.[9]

gollark: Idea: also make it able to scan maps, regular printed books, maybe enchanted books, sort of thing.
gollark: If so, just say that you're... using a general-purpose hardware neural network implementation... to... store inputted data and rewrite it on other media.
gollark: By that do you mean "remember the text and typing it out again"?
gollark: Or we could just use modems.
gollark: Clever idea!

References
  1. "Swatch Taps Founder's Daughter to Lead Board". WSJ. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  2. "Nayla Hayek". Fortune. 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  3. "It's Official, Nayla Hayek Becomes CEO Of Harry Winston". Forbes. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  4. "Harry Winston Renames World's Largest Flawless Vivid Blue Diamond, 'The Winston Blue'". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
  5. "Rencontre - Nayla Hayek" (in French). 13 May 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  6. "100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2012 : Nayla Hayek". Arabian Business. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  7. "Interview Nayla Hayek" (in French). L'illustré. 28 July 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  8. "Nayla Hayek: Shared horse hobby helps Swatch 'palace business'". Financial Times. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  9. http://www.swatchgroup.com/en/group_profile/boards/executive_group_management_board/marc_alexander_hayek
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