Nayla Hayek

Nayla Hayek
Born	Hayek 1951
Occupation	Businesswoman
Title	Chair of the Board of Directors, Swatch Group CEO, Harry Winston, Inc.

Nayla Hayek (born 1951) is a businesswoman and horse breeding expert. She is the CEO of the luxury jewellers Harry Winston, Inc.

Hayek is the daughter of Lebanese-born Nicolas George Hayek, the late co-founder of the Swatch Group. In 1995, she joined the Group's board before becoming its chairwoman in 2010, after her father's death.

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

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

Her activity as a horse breeder and expert in Egyptian horses helps the group build and maintain contacts with the Middle East.

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