Henry Kravis

Henry R. Kravis ( born January 6, 1944 in Tulsa ) is an American investor. He co-owns the large investment company (private equity investment ) Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR ), which in Germany by the joint acquisition ( with Permira ) ProSiebenSat.1 Media was known in 2006. His fortune was estimated in 2008 by Forbes at $ 5.5 billion.

Prior to KKR

Kravis studied economics at Claremont McKenna College until 1967 and graduated from the Columbia Business School in 1969 its MBA. In New York he worked under Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. with his cousin, George R. Roberts at Bear Stearns, where he became a partner quickly.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

The three went under the name of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1976 as a leveraged buy -out firm independently, Kohlberg increased but 1987. In the U.S., KKR was the spectacular 31.4 billion USD takeover battle for RJR Nabisco ' ( mother of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company) announced in 1989 that books like " The Nabisco Story: a company is plundered ( Barbarians at the Gate )" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar and a television film moved to yourself.