Henry Kravis

Co-Chair and Co-CEO, KKR
$16.62B
$74M (0.4%)
as of 11/22/24

About Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis cofounded KKR with his cousin, George Roberts, and Jerome Kohlberg (d. 2015) in 1976.

Kravis and Roberts gave up their co-CEO titles in 2021; both now serve as executive co-chairs. Kohlberg left the firm in 1987.

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

KKR has some more than 250 portfolio companies and more than $600 billion in assets under management, making it one of the five largest private equity firms.

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

277K

troy ounces of gold

256K

median U.S. household

166K

median U.S. income

0.332%

U.S. credit card volume

0.066%

GDP of the United States

0.049%

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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