Co-Head of Global PE at KKR; Founder of Ownership Works and Expanding ESOPs
Pete Stavros (New York) joined KKR in 2005 and is Co-Head of Global Private Equity. This
includes more than $170 billion of assets across Europe, Asia and the Americas and covers
traditional large and mid-cap private equity, core and growth equity.
Prior to this role, Mr. Stavros served as Co-Head of the Americas Private Equity platform.
He is a member of several investment and management committees at KKR and has also
served as Co-Chair of the firm’s global Inclusion and Diversity Council.
As an investor, Mr. Stavros has helped lead a number of successful investments across
sectors and sizes, including HCA Healthcare, Nielsen, Gardner Denver / Ingersoll Rand,
Capsugel, Capital Safety, Hyperion, Flow Control Group, Charter Next Generation,
Minnesota Rubber and Plastics, Geostabilization International, Crosby Group and CHI
Overhead Doors.
Prior to becoming Co-Head of Americas Private Equity, Mr. Stavros led the Industrials
industry team where he pioneered an innovative employee engagement and ownership
model. This approach has been successfully implemented at more than 50 KKR companies
and has positively impacted more than a hundred thousand employees.
Mr. Stavros is the Founder and Chairman of Ownership Works, a non-profit focused on
building a worker ownership movement globally and enhancing the financial resiliency of the
workforce. The goal of Ownership Works is to create more than $20 billion of wealth for
working families over the next decade. Mr. Stavros is also the Founder and Chairman of
Expanding ESOPs, an organization focused on dramatically expanding the number of
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) in corporate America.
Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Stavros was an investor with GTCR Golder Rauner, where he was
an investor in the healthcare sector. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from
Duke University and an M.B.A. with high distinction, Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business
School.