Henry Kravis

Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Co-founder of buyout firm KKR circumventing stymied public offering. In July KKR announced plans to go public in U.S. via merger with European affiliate; when complete, company could be worth as much as $15 billion. Firm manages $60 billion. Annual gross returns: 26.1%. Created firm 1976. Used junk bonds to buy underperforming companies, streamline operations, flip for profit. Most famous for $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco 1989. Kravis owns large art collection.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

KKR & Co. Inc. Private equity firm

• Founding Partner

Board Memberships

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Palm Beach Civic Association

• Board Member

New York Federal Reserve Investor Advisory Committee

• Board Member

Rockefeller University

• Trustee, Vice Chair ('04→?)

First Data Corporation Data processing; firm acquired by Fiserv in 2019 for $22 billion

• Board Member

Henry R Kravis Foundation

• founder

New York City Investment Fund Manager, Inc.

• chairman

Central Park Conservancy The mission of the Central Park Conservancy is to restore, manage, and enhance Central Park in partnership with the public.

• trustee

The Partnership for New York City, Inc. Nonprofit membership organization comprised of a select group of two hundred CEOs from top NYC-based businesses

• Board Member

Columbia Business School

• Co-chair, Board of Overseers

Council on Foreign Relations US foreign policy think tank

• Director

Positions

Andrew N. Liveris Academy To transform the future with people, skills, and technology.

• Member, Honorary Board

Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College Founded by Henry Kravis

• Member, Advisory Board

John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts DC Performing Arts Center

• vice chair, corporate fund board

Claremont McKenna College College with a curricular emphasis on economics, government, and public affairs

• Trustee

Donations

Columbia Business School

• Donation · 100,000,000 USD ('10)

New York Republican State Committee - Reporting

• 2 contributions · 110,800 USD (May 19 '00→Apr 12 '02)

George E Pataki Former Governor of New York; of counsel, Chadbourne & Parke

• 2 contributions · 30,700 USD (Apr 21 '99→May 12 '00)

State Conservative Campaign Committee NYS

• 1 contribution · 25,000 USD (Nov 1 '02)

New Visions for Public Schools NYC ed reform group

• Donation · 25,000 USD

Eliot Spitzer Former Governor of New York

• 1 contribution · 5,000 USD (Dec 27 '01)

Alan Hevesi NY State Assemblyman and Comptroller ('03-'06), banned from public office after pension scandal

• 1 contribution · 4,500 USD (Sep 19 '00)

NYS Senate Republican Campaign Committee

• 2 contributions · 3,250 USD (Nov 10 '05→Jul 13 '06)

Marty Golden NY State Senator

• 1 contribution · 2,000 USD (Oct 8 '02)

Claremont McKenna College College with a curricular emphasis on economics, government, and public affairs

• Donation · 85 USD

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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RNC Republican National State Elections Committee

• 10 contributions · 595,000 USD ('92→Apr 11 '02)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 11 contributions · 574,400 USD ('91→Apr 23 '15)

Senate Leadership Fund (Super PAC) SuperPAC aiming to build Republican majority in the US Senate

• 1 contribution · 500,000 USD (Dec 3 '20)

Restore Our Future PAC Super PAC tied to Mitt Romney

• 2 contributions · 200,000 USD ('12→Feb 16 '12)

National Republican Congressional Committee

• 9 contributions · 94,100 USD ('93→Oct 14 '16)

Ryan-NRCC Victory Cmte

• 1 contribution · 50,000 USD (Oct 14 '16)

NRSC - Nonfederal

• 1 contribution · 50,000 USD ('00)

Romney Victory

• 1 contribution · 40,000 USD (Jul 5 '12)

John McCain US Senator and Representative from Arizona

• 15 contributions · 39,900 USD ('98→'10)

Dan Sullivan US Senator; Former Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner

• 1 contribution · 35,500 USD (Oct 6 '20)

Holdings

Relationship Science LittleSis for Wall Street

• Investor

HCA Healthcare Hospital management company

• major shareholder

Doppler Labs Failed company making high-end wireless earphones

• Owner

Memberships

The Business Council Business Advisory Council for the Department of Commerce since 1933

• Member

Wall Street Journal CEO Council 120 of the world’s most powerful chief executives

• Member

The Bretton Woods Committee

• Business Sector

Family

Marie-Josée Kravis MoMA president; wife of billionaire Henry Kravis; Hudson Institute vice chair

• wife

Raymond Kravis Tulsa oil engineer

• father

Schools

Claremont McKenna College College with a curricular emphasis on economics, government, and public affairs

• Bachelor's Degree, Economics ('63→'67)

Loomis Chaffee School Coeducational boarding school for grades 9–12

• High School Diploma ('60→'63)

Columbia Business School

• MBA ('67→'69)