Profil Financier
Henry Kravis occupe actuellement le rang #268 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur finance & investissement). Fortune nette estimée : $12.2 B (-$72 M sur 24h).
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."