Henry Kravis is Founding Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a merchant banking firm he founded with two partners in 1976. He earned a BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College, California, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1969. While at the Business School, Mr. Kravis was ... vice president of Katy Industries, where he designed and implemented its acquisition program. He then joined Bear Stearns & Co.,