KKR Cofounder’s Affiliations and Charity
Highly esteemed business shareholder and financier, Henry Kravis, is best known for forming and manning a top private equity firm called Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co (KKR).
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 6th of January 1944, Henry Kravis founded the Henry Kravis Leadership Institute, an establishment that supports the Henry Kravis Internships for Teachers of Color program. It also sponsors the Leadership Studies initiatives at Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater. The Loomis Chaffee School, Deerfield Academy (Kravis Arena), Eaglebrook School (Kravis Dorm) and Middlesex School (Kravis House) are some of the education facilities he financed.
Henry Kravis, a Mount Sinai Medical Center Board of Trustees member, is also the former chairman and patron of a public TV station from New York, as well as a board member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A professorship contributor, he and his wife, Marie-Josee Kravis, donated a total of $15 million to the Center for Cardiovascular Health. Moreover, he financed the Human Oncology’s chair at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Formerly, Henry Kravis co-headed the 1979 David Rockefeller-founded Partnership for New York City together with Jerry Speyer. He is currently one of its board directors. Later on, he instituted the New York City Investment Fund, a nonprofit group that centers on developing job positions and businesses in the city.
At present, he is a Council on Foreign Relations trustee in New York and a Business Council member. Furthermore, he is the vice chairman of Rockefeller University and the co-chairman of the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers.
