KKR co-founder George Roberts and I are first cousins. Our family shares the tradition of pursuing the American dream.
My paternal grandfather, Harry, was born in Minsk, which was the capital of the Belarusian Governorate of the Russian Empire, and later moved to London, where he ran a tailor shop. When his son Raymond, my father, who was born in London in 1901, was around 3 years old, the family immigrated to the U.S. Harry started running a retail store in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
