Henry Kravis

Co-Chair and Co-CEO, KKR
$12.23B
$109.4M (0.9%)
as of 07/02/24

About Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis and George Roberts, cofounders of private equity firm KKR, gave up their co-CEO titles in October 2021; both serve as executive co-chairs.

Kravis cofounded KKR with his cousin, George Roberts, and Jerome Kohlberg (d. 2015) in 1976. Kohlberg left the firm in 1987.

KKR has more than 100 portfolio companies that generate about $300 billion in revenues, making it one of the five largest private equity firms in the world.

Kravis and Roberts took KKR public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010 and converted it into a corporation in 2018.

Kravis donated $100 million to Columbia University Business School in 2010 and another $25 million in 2015.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Private equity

Residence

New York, New York

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/06/44 (age 80)

Number of children

2

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Claremont McKenna College; Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School

Self-made

self-made

Henry Kravis’s fortune is worth

204K

troy ounces of gold

188K

median U.S. household

122K

median U.S. income

0.245%

U.S. credit card volume

0.049%

GDP of the United States

0.036%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

His economist wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, is president of the board of trustees at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | KKR-US

KKR & Co.

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