Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
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Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (born 1926) is a American businessman and billionaire.
He partnered with Bear Stearns protégés Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts to form leverage-buyout shop Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He left to start his own firm, Kohlberg & Company, in 1987; retired in 1994. He 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 current net worth of around $1.2 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 645-richest person in the world.
He 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 1986, he founded the Philip Evans Scholarship Foundation at Swarthmore.
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