Rank #236
George Roberts
Net worth $13.0B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Sep 14, 1943
- Age
- 82
- Source
- 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
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
Financial assets
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