DEF 14A of KKR & Co. Inc., Feb 27, 2026

DEF 14A of KKR & Co. Inc.

Filed Feb 27, 20260001140361-26-007164

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  1. Your Board of Directors

    Your Board of Directors The strong expertise and leadership on our Board is showcased in our directors’ biographies, listed below: Henry R. Kravis co-founded KKR in 1976 and serves as our Co-Executive Chairman. Mr. Kravis was our Co-Chief Executive Officer until 2021 and is actively involved in managing the firm. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of Axel Springer and Catalio Capital Management, LP. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, trustee or executive committee member of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council (former chairman), Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School (former co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City (former chairman), the Partnership Fund for New York City (founding chairman), Rockefeller University (former vice chairman), and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman). He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. Mr. Kravis has five decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies. As our Co-Founder, Co-Executive Chairman and former Co-Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kravis has an intimate knowledge of KKR’s business, which allows him to provide insight into various aspects of our business and is of significant value to our Board. Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts are first cousins. George R. Roberts co-founded KKR in 1976 and serves as our Co-Executive Chairman. Mr. Roberts was our Co-Chief Executive Officer until 2021 and is actively involved in managing the firm. Mr. Roberts has served as a director or trustee of several cultural and educational institutions, including Claremont McKenna College. He is also Founder and Chairman of the board of directors of REDF, a San Francisco nonprofit organization. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1966 and a J.D. from the University of California (Hastings) Law School in 1969. Mr. Roberts has five decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies. As our Co-Founder, Co-Executive Chairman and former Co-Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roberts has an intimate knowledge of KKR’s business, which allows him to provide insight into various aspects of our business and is of significant value to our Board. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Kravis are first cousins. Joseph Y. Bae joined KKR in 1996 and is our Co-Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2021, and he has been a member of our Board since July 2017. Mr. Bae has held numerous leadership roles at KKR. He was the architect of KKR’s expansion in Asia, building one of the largest and most successful platforms in the market. In addition to his role developing KKR’s Asia-Pacific platform, he has presided over business building in the firm’s private markets businesses, which included leading or serving on all of the investment committees and implementing the firm’s modern thematic investment approach. He is active in a number of non-profit educational and cultural institutions, including co-founding and serving on the board of The Asian American Foundation, as a member of Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council, and as a member of the Harvard Corporation. Mr. Bae’s intimate knowledge of KKR’s business and operations and his experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within KKR provide significant value to our Board. Scott C. Nuttall joined KKR in 1996 and is our Co-Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2021, and he has been a member of our Board since July 2017. Mr. Nuttall has had numerous leadership roles at KKR. He was the architect of the firm’s major strategic development initiatives, including leading KKR’s public listing, developing the firm’s balance sheet strategy, overseeing the development of KKR’s Public Markets businesses in the credit and hedge fund space as well as the creation of the firm’s capital markets, capital raising, and insurance businesses. Mr. Nuttall serves on KKR’s Balance Sheet Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of Fiserv, Inc. until 2022. He has also served on the boards of various non-profit institutions with a particular focus on education, most recently as Co-Chairman of Teach for America – New York. Mr. Nuttall’s intimate knowledge of KKR’s business and operations and his experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within KKR provide significant value to our Board. Craig Arnold has been a member of our Board since September 2025. Mr. Arnold is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Eaton Corporation, a global intelligent power management company. Prior to becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2016 (a position he held until May 2025), Mr. Arnold served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Eaton Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Arnold served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Eaton Corporation’s Industrial Sector from 2009 to 2015. Mr. Arnold previously worked for General Electric Company, where he held roles across the Appliances, Plastics and Lighting businesses. He currently is a member of the Boards of Directors of Medtronic, where he serves as the lead independent director, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, the United Way of Greater Cleveland and the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland. He graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a bachelor’s degree, and obtained a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Mr. Arnold brings significant value to our Board from his extensive leadership, strategy and risk management experience from his years of leadership at large multinational companies and possesses strong corporate governance acumen and financial oversight skills from service on multiple public company boards of directors. Timothy R. Barakett has been a member of our Board since March 2025. Mr. Barakett is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TRB Advisors, a private investment firm and family office. TRB invests directly in public and private markets and provides capital and strategic support to a number of investment firms. Prior to founding TRB in 2010, Mr. Barakett was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atticus Capital, a global investment management firm. Before founding Atticus in 1995, Mr. Barakett was a Managing Director at Junction Advisors, an investment management company specializing in risk arbitrage, and earlier in his career, he was a Senior Associate at Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Barakett is the Treasurer of Harvard University, a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and the Chair of the Board of the Harvard Management Company, which manages Harvard University’s endowment. He also serves on the boards of directors of Athletic Brewing Company and Rethink Food NYC and the Advisory Boards of Commodore Capital, Forward Consumer Partners, and Charter Oak Advisors. Mr. Barakett’s extensive leadership and financial experience in the investment management industry and with a large university provides our Board with significant financial, risk management, and unique industry insight expertise.

  2. Your Board of Directors

    Adriane M. Brown has been a member of our Board since June 2021. Ms. Brown joined Flying Fish Ventures as a Venture Partner in November 2018 and became a Managing Partner of the venture capital firm in February 2021. Prior to that, Ms. Brown served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Intellectual Ventures, an invention and investment company, from January 2010 through July 2017, and served as a Senior Advisor until December 2018. Before joining Intellectual Ventures, Ms. Brown served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell Transportation Systems. Over the course of 10 years at Honeywell, she held leadership positions serving the aerospace and automotive markets globally. Prior to Honeywell, Ms. Brown spent 19 years at Corning, Inc., ultimately serving as Vice President and General Manager, Environmental Products Division, having started her career there as a shift supervisor. Ms. Brown serves on the boards of directors of American Airlines Group Inc., Axon Enterprise, Inc., eBay Inc., and the International Women’s Forum. Ms. Brown previously served on the boards of directors of Allergan Plc and Raytheon Company until 2020. Ms. Brown holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters and a bachelor’s degree in environmental health from Old Dominion University, and is a winner of its Distinguished Alumni Award. She also holds a master’s degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was a Sloan Fellow. Ms. Brown’s leadership in technology businesses and industrial companies as well as her investment and financial experience bring important expertise to the oversight and development of our business. Matthew R. Cohler has been a member of our Board since December 2021. Mr. Cohler is a former General Partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark, where for over a decade he led early-stage investments in Internet and software startup businesses. He currently serves as a director and nominating and governance committee member at Asana, as a director and audit committee member at 1stDibs and as a director at several privately held companies. Previously he served as a director, audit committee member, and nominating and governance committee member at Domo, as a director and audit committee member at Uber and as a director at privately held companies including Duo Security, Instagram and Tinder. Prior to Benchmark, Mr. Cohler was Vice President at Facebook, where he was the company’s seventh employee, and Vice President at LinkedIn, where he was part of the company’s founding team. He serves on the board of trustees at Environmental Defense Fund (Vice Chair), on the board of governors at the San Francisco Symphony (Vice President) and on the investment committee at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and at the Yale Investments Office. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, cum laude and with distinction in the study of music. Mr. Cohler’s knowledge and experience as a venture capitalist and director of multiple leading companies in the technology industry bring to our Board important insight and perspectives to our business and future development. Mary N. Dillon has been a member of our Board since September 2018. From September 2022 to September 2025, Ms. Dillon was the Chief Executive Officer of Foot Locker, Inc. (and President from September 2022 to March 2025) and a member of its board of directors. From 2013 to 2022, Ms. Dillon served as a member of the board of directors of Ulta Beauty, Inc., a beauty products retailer, and was its Executive Chair from June 2021 through June 2022 and Chief Executive Officer from 2013 to June 2021. From 2010 to 2013, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of United States Cellular Corporation, a provider of wireless telecommunication services. From 2005 to 2010, Ms. Dillon served as Global Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of McDonald’s Corporation. From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Dillon held several positions of increasing responsibility at PepsiCo Corporation, including as President of the Quaker Foods division. Ms. Dillon joined the board of directors of Starbucks in January 2016 and served as chair of its compensation and management development committee, and as a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee through August 2022. Ms. Dillon is chair of the board of trustees of Save the Children US since 2025 after having served on the board of trustees from 2016 to 2023. Ms. Dillon provides our Board with valuable knowledge and insights she gained through her various senior management and leadership roles, including as the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company. In addition, with over 40 years of experience in consumer-driven businesses, Ms. Dillon brings to our Board her extensive operational and marketing expertise in the retail industry. Arturo Gutiérrez Hernández has been a member of our Board since March 2021. Mr. Gutiérrez has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Arca Continental, one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world, since January 2019. Mr. Gutiérrez held several executive positions in the company from 2001 to 2018, including Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Head of the Mexico Beverages Division, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Director of Corporate Planning and General Counsel. He serves on several boards of industry-related companies and on the board of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited. He also serves on the Coca-Cola Mexico Foundation. Mr. Gutiérrez earned a law degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico City, and an L.L.M. from Harvard University, as a Fulbright Scholar. Mr. Gutiérrez provides our Board with valuable knowledge, perspectives and insights from his leadership of a large multinational business based in Latin America and from his broad experience in various aspects of the consumer staples, including operational, financial, business development, and legal areas. Xavier B. Niel has been a member of our Board since March 2018. Mr. Niel is the Founder and Chairman of the board of Iliad SA, a French telecommunications company that owns the internet provider Free and the low-cost mobile operator Free Mobile. Mr. Niel also owns majority stakes in telecom operators in various countries. He has been involved in the data communications, internet, and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 2010, Mr. Niel founded Kima Ventures SAS, which is an active early-stage investor. In 2013, he created 42, a school that trains computer specialists in France, and in 2017, he opened Station-F, a startup campus located in Paris. Mr. Niel brings significant value to our Board due to his extensive experience as an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies, in addition to his leadership and technology experience.

  3. Your Board of Directors

    Kimberly A. Ross has been a member of the Board since September 2023. Ms. Ross is a member of the board of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation and The Cigna Group. Ms. Ross served as Chief Financial Officer of WeWork Inc. from March 2020 through October 2020. Ms. Ross served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Baker Hughes Company, an energy technology company, from September 2014 to July 2017. Before joining Baker Hughes, Ms. Ross served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Avon Products, Inc., a global manufacturer and marketer of beauty and related products, from November 2011 until October 2014. Prior to joining Avon, Ms. Ross served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Royal Ahold N.V., a food retail company, from 2007 to 2011 and held a variety of senior management positions during her tenure there, which began in 2001. She has previously served as a director of Nestlé S.A. from 2018 through 2024, KKR Acquisition Holdings I Corp from 2021 through 2022, and Chubb Limited from 2014 through 2020. Ms. Ross has significant international business experience through her service as an executive of large public companies with international operations. Ms. Ross also provides our Board with valuable knowledge and experience in corporate finance, financial planning and analysis, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, financial reporting, and internal audit as well as IT operations oversight. Patricia F. Russo has been a member of our Board since April 2011. Ms. Russo served as Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel-Lucent from 2006 to 2008. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent in 2006, she served as Chairman of Lucent Technologies, Inc. from 2003 to 2006, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2006. Before rejoining Lucent in 2002, Ms. Russo was President and Chief Operating Officer of Eastman Kodak Company from March 2001 to December 2001. She has served as the Chairman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company since 2015, as a director of Merck & Co., Inc. since 2009 and as a director of General Motors Company since 2009, including as lead independent director from March 2010 to January 2014 and again since June 2021. Prior to its merger with Merck in 2009, Ms. Russo served as a director of Schering-Plough since 1995, and she served as a director of Hewlett Packard Company from 2011 to November 2015. From November 2016 to May 2018, Ms. Russo also served on the board of Arconic Inc., which separated from Alcoa Inc., where Ms. Russo served as a director from 2008 to November 2016. She graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and history, and obtained an Advanced Management Degree from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Ms. Russo’s management and leadership experience as chief executive officer of complex global companies as well as her experience with corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and sales and marketing brings to our Board important expertise to the oversight and development of our business. Ms. Russo also brings extensive experience in corporate governance as a member of boards and board committees of other public companies. Robert W. Scully has been a member of our Board since July 2010. Mr. Scully was a member of the Office of the Chairman of Morgan Stanley from 2007 until his retirement in 2009, where he had previously been Co-President of the firm, Chairman of global capital markets and Vice Chairman of investment banking. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he served as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Scully has served as a director of Chubb Limited since January 2016, and prior to its acquisition of Chubb Limited, a director of ACE Limited from May 2014 to January 2016. Previously, he was a director of Zoetis Inc. from June 2013 to May 2025, a director of UBS Group AG from May 2016 to April 2020, a director of Bank of America Corporation from August 2009 to May 2013 and a public governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. from October 2014 to May 2016. He has also served as a director of GMAC Financial Services and MSCI Inc. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Scully is a member of the Nassau Hall Society at Princeton University. Mr. Scully previously was Chair and Co-Chair of Teach for America, New York, and he previously served on the Board of Teach For All and the Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School. Mr. Scully’s 35-year career in the financial services industry brings to our Board important expertise to the oversight of our business. In addition, his leadership experience with a global financial services company brings an industry perspective to our business development within and outside the United States as well as issues such as talent development, senior client relationship management, strategic initiatives, risk management and audit, and financial reporting. Evan T. Spiegel has been a member of our Board since October 2021. Mr. Spiegel is the Co-Founder of Snap Inc., a publicly traded technology company that believes the camera represents the greatest opportunity to improve the way that people live and communicate, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors since 2012. In 2017, Mr. Spiegel formed the Spiegel Family Fund, a non-profit humanitarian organization which supports organizations across the arts, education, housing and human rights. Mr. Spiegel currently serves on the boards of directors of Snap Inc. and the Berggruen Institute. Mr. Spiegel holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Product Design from Stanford University. Mr. Spiegel’s experience as a co-founder and executive of a leading company in technology services brings to our Board important insight and perspectives to our business and future development.