KKR co-founder George Roberts and I are first cousins. Our family shares a tradition of living the American dream.
My paternal grandfather, Harry, was born in Minsk, the capital of the Belorussian Governorate of the Russian Empire, and later moved to London, where he ran a tailor's shop. Born in London in 1901, when my son Raymond was about 3 years old, Harry's family moved to the United States and began running a retail store in Atlantic City, New Jersey.