Your Board of Directors
The strong expertise and leadership on our Board is showcased in our directors’ biographies, listed below:
Henry R. Kravis co-founded KKR in 1976 and serves as our Co-Executive Chairman. Prior to his current position, he was our Co-Chief Executive Officer until 2021. He is actively involved in managing the firm and serves on each of the regional Private Equity Investment Committees. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of Axel Springer, ICONIQ Capital, LLC, and Catalio Capital Management, LP. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, trustee or executive committee member of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council (former chairman), Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School (former co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City (former chairman), the Partnership Fund for New York City (founding chairman), Rockefeller University (former vice chairman), and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman). He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. Mr. Kravis has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies. As our Co-Founder, Co-Executive Chairman and former Co-Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kravis has an intimate knowledge of KKR’s business, which allows him to provide insight into various aspects of our business and is of significant value to our Board. Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts are first cousins.
George R. Roberts co-founded KKR in 1976 and serves as our Co-Executive Chairman. Prior to his current position, he was Co-Chief Executive Officer until 2021. He is actively involved in managing the firm and serves on each of the regional Private Equity Investment Committees. Mr. Roberts has served as a director or trustee of several cultural and educational institutions, including Claremont McKenna College. He is also Founder and Chairman of the board of directors of REDF, a San Francisco nonprofit organization. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1966 and a J.D. from the University of California (Hastings) Law School in 1969. Mr. Roberts has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies. As our Co-Founder, Co-Executive Chairman and former Co-Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roberts has an intimate knowledge of KKR’s business, which allows him to provide insight into various aspects of our business and is of significant value to our Board. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Kravis are first cousins.
Joseph Y. Bae joined KKR in 1996 and is our Co-Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2021, and he has been a member of our Board since July 2017. Mr. Bae has held numerous leadership roles at KKR. He was the architect of KKR’s expansion in Asia, building one of the largest and most successful platforms in the market. In addition to his role developing KKR’s Asia-Pacific platform, he has presided over business building in the firm’s private markets businesses, which included leading or serving on all of the investment committees and implementing the firm’s modern thematic investment approach. He is active in a number of non-profit educational and cultural institutions, including co-founding and serving on the board of The Asian American Foundation, as a member of Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council, and as a member of the Harvard Corporation. Mr. Bae’s intimate knowledge of KKR’s business and operations and his experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within KKR provide significant value to our Board.
Scott C. Nuttall joined KKR in 1996 and is our Co-Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2021, and he has been a member of our Board since July 2017. Mr. Nuttall has had numerous leadership roles at KKR. He was the architect of the firm’s major strategic development initiatives, including leading KKR’s public listing, developing the firm’s balance sheet strategy, overseeing the development of KKR’s Public Markets businesses in the credit and hedge fund space as well as the creation of the firm’s capital markets, capital raising, and insurance businesses. Mr. Nuttall serves on KKR’s Balance Sheet Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of Fiserv, Inc. until 2022. He has also served on the boards of various non-profit institutions with a particular focus on education, most recently as Co-Chairman of Teach for America – New York. Mr. Nuttall’s intimate knowledge of KKR’s business and operations and his experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within KKR provide significant value to our Board.
Craig Arnold has been a member of our Board since September 2025. Mr. Arnold is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Eaton Corporation, a global intelligent power management company. Prior to becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2016, Mr. Arnold served as the
