George R. Roberts

George R. Roberts (born 1944) is an American financier and was one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976. George Roberts was born in Houston, Texas and attended Claremont McKenna College, graduating in 1966. He then attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, graduating in 1969. He graduated from Culver Military Academy in '62 and received that institution's "Man of the Year" Award in 1998. Working for Bear Stearns in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roberts, alongside Kohlberg and Kravis began a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments. Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating...