George Roberts
$15.9B
Born
Sep 14, 1943
Age
82
Source of Wealth
Private equity
Residence
Atherton, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Widowed, Remarried
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Claremont McKenna College; Doctor of Jurisprudence, UC Hastings
- George Roberts cofounded KKR with his cousin, Henry Kravis, 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.
- The firm is known for the 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco, chronicled in the book "Barbarians At The Gate."
- 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 in the world
- Roberts and his wife have a passion for art; they sit on the boards of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- Roberts' nonprofit, REDF, invests in companies that train and provide jobs for the disadvantaged.
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