George R. Roberts

George R. Roberts (born 1945) is an American financier and was one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976. Roberts has an estimated net worth of around $5.5 billion as of 2007 . Much of this wealth came through his position at private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In 1989 Roberts and Kravis led one of the most famous leverage... more

George R. Roberts (born 1945) is an American financier and was one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976. Roberts has an estimated net worth of around $5.5 billion as of 2007 . Much of this wealth came through his position at private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In 1989 Roberts and Kravis led one of the most famous leveraged buyouts (LBOs) in the takeover of RJR Nabisco. Roberts' involvement in the RJR Nabisco deal was profiled prominently in the book and movie, Barbarians at the Gate. Roberts was featured on the cover of FORTUNE Magazine at the height of the buyout boom of the 1980s alongside his cousin and partner, Henry Kravis. Working for Bear Stearns in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roberts, alongside Kohlberg and Kravis began a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments. Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the... less