Alex Navab was an American financier who was the head of the Americas Private Equity Business of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and possible successor to the firm.
10 Facts About Alex Navab
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Alex Navab graduated from Columbia College as Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 and Harvard Business School in 1991.
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Alex Navab worked at Goldman Sachs and James D Wolfensohn, Inc before joining KKR in 1993.
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Alex Navab became co-president of KKR's American private equity business in 2008.
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Alex Navab helped the firm raise $13.9 billion, one of the biggest of its kind.
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Alex Navab was involved in the Greek American community and was named "Executive of the Year" in 2017 by the Hellenic American Association for Professionals in Finance.
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Alex Navab received a John Jay Award from Columbia College in 2011, along with Ghanaian economist and future Minister for Finance and Economic Planning Ken Ofori-Atta, Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, and Livingston Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Rubin.
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Alex Navab served on the advisory council of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution, where business leaders put forward proposals for America's economic policy.
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Alex Navab was the former co-chair of the national council of the American Enterprise Institute and supported former governor Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
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Alex Navab died on July 7,2019, while vacationing with his family in Greece.