Henry Kravis
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Private equity
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Organization
- Co-Chair and Co-CEO at KKR
- Education
- Claremont McKenna College (Bachelor of Arts/Science)Columbia Business School (Master of Business Administration)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- KKR & Co.76,852,000 shares @ --KKR-US
Biography
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 $650 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.
About
His economist wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, is president of the board of trustees at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
In 1989, KKR orchestrated the $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco; the deal became the basis of the bestselling book "Barbarians at the Gate."