Henry Kravis
Co-Chair and Co-CEO, KKR
$14.49B
$101.7M (-0.7%)
as of 10/03/24
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.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Private equityResidence
New York, New YorkMarital status
MarriedBirth date
01/06/44 (age 80)Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Claremont McKenna College; Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business SchoolSelf-made
self-madeHenry Kravis’s fortune is worth
241K
troy ounces of gold
223K
median U.S. household
145K
median U.S. income
0.29%
U.S. credit card volume
0.058%
GDP of the United States
0.043%
United States debt
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In 1989, KKR orchestrated the $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco; the deal became the basis of the bestselling book "Barbarians at the Gate."
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