Nayla Hayek
{{Short description|Swiss heiress, businesswoman and horse breeder}}
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| name = Nayla Hayek
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}}
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| occupation = Businesswoman
| title = Chair, The Swatch Group
CEO, Harry Winston, Inc.
| father = Nicolas Hayek
| spouse = Roland Weber (divorced)
| children = 1
| relatives = Nick Hayek Jr. (brother)
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Nayla Hayek (born 1951) is a Swiss heiress, businesswoman and horse breeder.{{cite web |date=30 June 2013 |title=Swatch Taps Founder's Daughter to Lead Board |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703426004575338783855263278 |accessdate=6 August 2013 |publisher=WSJ}} She is the chair of The Swatch Group and CEO of its subsidiary, the jeweler Harry Winston.
Early life
Hayek is the daughter of Lebanese-born Swiss businessman Nicolas Hayek, the late founder of The Swatch Group.{{Cite news |date=2018-09-26 |title=Nayla Hayek |url=http://fortune.com/most-powerful-women-international/nayla-hayek-46/ |access-date=2018-11-26 |work=Fortune |language=en-US}} She has a younger brother, Nick Hayek Jr.
The Swatch Group
Hayek joined the board of The Swatch Group in 1995 and became its chair in 2010, after her father's death.
Hayek became the CEO of Harry Winston, Inc. in May 2013, a few months after The Swatch Group acquired the company.{{cite web |date=10 May 2013 |title=It's Official, Nayla Hayek Becomes CEO Of Harry Winston |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2013/05/10/its-official-nayla-hayek-becomes-ceo-of-harry-winston/ |accessdate=7 August 2013 |work=Forbes}} The company bought the world's largest flawless blue diamond The Winston Blue in May 2014.{{cite web |date= |title=Harry Winston Renames World's Largest Flawless Vivid Blue Diamond, 'The Winston Blue' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2014/05/15/harry-winston-renames-worlds-largest-flawless-vivid-blue-diamond-the-winston-blue/ |accessdate=2014-05-16 |work=Forbes}}
Horse breeding
Hayek stated that her passion for horses started when she was a child and worked to buy a pony.{{cite web |url=http://fr.worldtempus.com/article/insider/rencontre-nayla-hayek |title=Rencontre - Nayla Hayek |date=13 May 2013 |language=french |accessdate=8 August 2013}} Since then, she became an international Arabian horse judge{{cite web |url=http://www.arabianbusiness.com/100-most-powerful-arab-women-2012-448295.html?view=profile&itemid=448153#.UgOm-1PdiDY |title=100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2012 : Nayla Hayek |date=5 March 2012 |publisher=Arabian Business |accessdate=8 August 2013}} and owns over 60 purebred Arabian horses.{{cite web |url=http://www.illustre.ch/Nayla-Hayek-Swatch-Group-succession_51094_.html |title=Interview Nayla Hayek |publisher=L'illustré |language=french |date=28 July 2010 |accessdate=8 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051626/http://www.illustre.ch/Nayla-Hayek-Swatch-Group-succession_51094_.html |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}
Hayek's activity as a horse breeder and expert in Egyptian horses helps the group build and maintain contacts with the Middle East.{{cite web |date=25 March 2011 |title=Nayla Hayek: Shared horse hobby helps Swatch 'palace business' |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3e9b368-54e3-11e0-96f3-00144feab49a.html#axzz2bCVXhcVY |accessdate=6 August 2013 |publisher=Financial Times}}
Personal
She was married to Swiss industrialist Roland Weber and eventually divorced. She and her ex-husband have a son, Marc Alexander, who is now on the executive group management board of the Swatch Group, taking charge of Blancpain, Breguet, Glashütte, Jaquet Droz, and Swatch Group Central and South America.{{Cite web |title=Marc Alexander Hayek |url=http://www.swatchgroup.com/en/group_profile/boards/executive_group_management_board/marc_alexander_hayek |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124001544/http://www.swatchgroup.com/en/group_profile/boards/executive_group_management_board/marc_alexander_hayek |archive-date=2018-01-24 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=swatchgroup.com}}
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