Arun Nayar was born in December 1964 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and is an entrepreneur and business person, best known as an heir to the successful Indian textile firm and is the owner of a computer business called Direction Software Solutions. Nayar’s career started in 1982.
Have you ever wondered how rich Arun Nayar is as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Nayar’s net worth is as high as $200 million, an amount earned through his successful career as an entrepreneur. In addition to owning his business, Nayar worked in the textile industry, which improved his wealth.
Arun Nayar Net Worth $200 Million
Arun Nayar was born as a son of Gunnar, his German-born mother, and Vinod, his Indian father, and grew up on a Leeds’ council estate, where his father studied at the time. With the birth of Arun’s brother Nikhil, his family moved to India, and later both of them stayed with their mother after the separation of their parents.
His mother, Gunnar, established the textile firm in the ‘70s, and it became one of the biggest companies of that sort in India, so she was able to send her children to the prestigious Cathedral and John Connon School, where Arun stayed until he was 16 years old. Then, he moved back to England to continue his studies at Millfield boarding school, where he excelled in sports, and with excellent academic grades Arun earned himself an opportunity to study physics at Oxford University. Before returning to Mumbai to work in his family textile firm, Nayar obtained a Master’s degree in physics at Imperial College, London.
While in India, Arun enjoyed his newly established fortune and built a reputation of a jet-set person after being regularly seen on the city’s glamorous social scene. In 1998, Arun used some of his family’s money to start his own business called Direction Software Solutions, which operates with computer-related software and components. It helped Arun to increase his net worth significantly, and that is maintained to the present day..
Regarding his personal life, Arun Nayar was married to Italian model Valentina Pedroni, who he met while on vacation in St Moritz in 1991, from 1997 to 2005, but in the meantime, Arun started dating the English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Arun and Valentina were separated at the time, and he and Elizabeth were seen for the first time in public at the Christian Dior fashion show in Paris in January 2003. They dated until March 2007, when they married at Sudeley Castle, and afterwards had a traditional Hindu wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur. Arun, Elizabeth, and her son from the previous relationship, Damian, lived on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire. However, Elizabeth filed for divorce in April 2011, stating Nayar’s “unreasonable behaviour” as the reason for divorce, and it was granted the following June.
