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Robin Khuda net worth: US$2.0 billion (Forbes estimate). Loading the latest figure…
Robin Khuda

Net Worth Over Time

Profile

Age
47
Source of wealth
Data centres, self-made
Company
AirTrunk, founder and CEO
Residence
Sydney, New South Wales
Citizenship
Australia
Marital status
Married to Melea Walker-Khuda
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Technology Sydney; MBA, University of Manchester

* Forbes tracks the net worth of Robin Khuda in real time. The figure above is a Forbes estimate in US dollars, and it moves as the value of his assets changes.

Key Facts

  • Khuda was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and arrived in Australia aged 18, washing dishes in a Rocks hotel to pay his way.
  • He trained as an accountant at Grant Thornton before moving into telecoms finance at Optus. He later joined PIPE Networks and then became employee number one at data centre start-up NEXTDC.
  • He founded AirTrunk in 2015 to build hyperscale data centres for the world’s biggest cloud customers. By Christmas 2016 the company was paying 20% interest on emergency debt and Khuda was seeking insolvency advice, before Goldman Sachs and private equity firm TSSP funded it in February 2017.
  • In 2024, Blackstone and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board led a consortium that acquired AirTrunk in an A$24 billion deal, which Forbes Australia reported was the largest-ever data centre deal globally. Khuda remains chief executive and kept a small but valuable stake.
  • Forbes ranked him No. 38 on its 2026 list of Australia’s 50 Richest, with US$2 billion.
  • In 2026, AirTrunk agreed to buy Lumina CloudInfra to expand in India and earmarked US$3 billion for two new data centres in Malaysia. In October it secured A$4.25 billion in debt for its 400 MW SYD3 campus in Western Sydney.
  • Khuda also founded Ondas, a luxury property developer with projects in Sydney and Melbourne. In 2025, he donated A$100 million to the University of Sydney to fund a 20-year STEM program for female students.