Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has announced that Robert D. Gottlieb has been named Chief Human Resources Officer.

Robert Gottlieb, 49, spent nearly 20 years at Goldman Sachs, from 1987 through 2005, serving in a number of senior human resource management and administrative roles.  These included leading the Corporate Human Resources function for the Firm and playing a major role in the creation of Goldman Sachs’ centralized and highly respected Human Capital Management Division.  He subsequently became the Firm’s Chief Training Officer and later was a co-leader of a firmwide compliance and reputational judgment initiative.  Mr. Gottlieb, who was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, served most recently as Chief Administrative Officer of the Investment Banking Division, where he had oversight responsibility for a range of administrative functions, including all human resource-related activities.  

Before joining GoldmanSachs, Mr. Gottlieb was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Established in 1976, KKR is a leading global alternative asset manager. The core of the Firm’s franchise is sponsoring and managing funds that make private equity investments in North America, Europe, and Asia. Throughout its history, KKR has brought a long-term investment approach to portfolio companies, focusing on working in partnership with management teams and investing for future competitiveness and growth. Additional funds that KKR sponsors include KKR Private Equity Investors, L.P. (Euronext Amsterdam: KPE), a permanent capital fund that invests in KKR-identified investments; and two credit strategy funds, KKR Financial (NYSE: KFN) and the KKR Strategic Capital Funds, which make investments in debt transactions. KKR has offices in New York, Menlo Park, San Francisco, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.