Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading a leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
With an estimated current net worth of around $5.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 107th richest American.
Kravis was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a Jewish family, the son of Bessie (Roberts) and Raymond Kravis, a successful Tulsa oil engineer who had be...
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Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading a leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
With an estimated current net worth of around $5.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 107th richest American.
Kravis was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a Jewish family, the son of Bessie (Roberts) and Raymond Kravis, a successful Tulsa oil engineer who had been a business partner of Joseph P. Kennedy. Kravis began his education at the Eaglebrook School, ('60) followed by high school at The Loomis Chaffee School. He then majored in economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and graduated in 1967 before going on to Columbia Business School, where he received an MBA degree in 1969.
After working at various jobs in New York City's financial sector, he and his first cousin, George R. Roberts, joined the staff of Bear Stearns. There, they worked under the corporate finance manager,...
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