Rank #257
Henry Kravis
Net worth $12.3B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Jan 06, 1944
- Age
- 82
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Claremont McKenna College; Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School
Net worth over time
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.
- 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."
Financial assets
| Exchange | Ticker | Shares | Price |
|---|