George Roberts
George R. Roberts is an American billionaire financier. He is one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976.
- George Roberts is cofounder and co-CEO of private equity giant KKR & Co. and a pioneer in the leveraged buyout business.
- Along with his cousin Henry Kravis and their mentor Jerome Kohlberg, the three led KKR through debt-financed hostile takeovers starting in the 1970s.
- The firm is known for the 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco, chronicled in the book “Barbarians At The Gate.”
- KKR went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.
