Portrait of Henry Kravis

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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

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