Jerome kohlberg biography

Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (born July 10, ) is an American businessman and early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

and later Kohlberg & Company.

Kohlberg dabbles in philanthropy through the Kohlberg Foundation. He and his wife raise endangered free-ranged livestock and fish on their farm, and some of the produce goes to his wife's restaurant, The Flying Pig, located in Mount Kisco, NY.

With an estimated net worth of around $ billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world.

Jerome kohlberg biography

Early life and education

Kohlberg graduated from New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, before going on to earn an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College. He later received degrees from Harvard Business School and Columbia Law School.

In , he founded the Philip Evans Scholarship Foundation at Swarthmore.

Career

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & C