Robert Kraft

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Robert Kenneth Kraft (born June 5, 1941) is an American businessman.

He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Kraft Group, a multinational holding company with expertise in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate acquisitions, and a private equity fund.

He is the owner of the New England Patriots, Big League Soccer's New England Revolution, and Gillette Stadium, where both teams compete.

He also owns the Boston Uprising, the first eSports team in New England.

Early life and education

Kraft was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and the son of Sarah Bryna (Webber) and Harry Kraft, a clothing manufacturer in Boston's Chinatown, was born. His mother was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia; his father, Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline, wanted his son to be a rabbi, and his father was a lay leader. The Krafts were a Modern Orthodox Jewish family. Robert attended Edward Devotion School and graduated from Brookline High School. He sold newspapers outside of Braves Field in Boston as a child. He was unable to participate in most sports because it interfered with his after-school Hebrew studies and the Sabbath observance.

Kraft earned a tuition scholarship at Columbia University and served as the class president. On the school's freshman and lightweight football teams, he played tennis and safety. He stayed in Carman Hall at the time. In 1962, he met Myra Hiatt at a delicatessen in Boston's Back Bay, and the two married in June 1963. He graduated from Columbia in the same year and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965.

When Kraft was 27 years old, he was elected chairman of the Newton Democratic City Committee. In 1970, he considered competing against Senator Philip J. Philbin but decided not to run against him, citing the loss of anonymity and financial strain on his family that politics might have caused. H. James Shea, Jr., Jr.'s suicide kept him from entering politics.

Personal life

Kraft married Myra Nathalie Hiatt, a 1964 graduate of Brandeis University and the niece of late Worcester, Massachusetts businessman and philanthropist Jacob Hiatt, who died in June 1963. On July 20, 2011, she died from ovarian cancer, aged 68. The Krafts were members of Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts. During the 2011 season, Kraft's initials (MHK) appeared on the Patriots' uniform jersey. Jonathan A. Kraft, Daniel A. Kraft, Joshua M. Kraft, and David H. Kraft were among the four sons.

Ricki Noel Lander, a director of the Kraft Company, first began dating actress Ricki Noel Lander in June 2012. Kraft supported Lander in the creation of an audition video for a role in The Internship in July 2012. In 2018, Kraft and Lander were both dissolving.

Kraft was one of 25 people charged with first-degree misdemeanor soliciting sex at the Jupiter day spa on February 25, 2019. He was charged with two misdemeanors for "soliciting another person to commit sex." Kraft was caught "receiving the suspected conduct," according to deputies, who claimed they concealed hidden cameras inside the facility. In Palm Beach County, Kraft's counsel electronically entered a not-guilty plea the next day. Kraft's counsel filed a court complaint on March 26, where Kraft "arraigns arraignment, pleads not guilty to all charges, and demands a jury trial." Investigators entered the day spa under the guise of a bomb threat in January, and Kraft's attorneys announced on April 2 that the hidden video cameras had been used.

Judge Hanser ruled on May 13 that lawyers could not use the videos in their case against Kraft because investigators "did not do enough to minimize the invasion of privacy of other customers." A Florida appeals court found that law enforcement violated Kraft's constitutional rights when obtaining such video evidence on August 19, 2020, and that the video will not be admissible in court. The charges against Kraft had been dismissed due to a lack of sufficient evidence, which was announced on September 24, 2020. Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II of Florida ordered that video recordings of Kraft and other customers at Orchids of Asia be destroyed in January 2021.

Tommy Hilfiger announced at the inaugural amfAR Gala Palm Beach event on March 5, 2022, that Kraft and his partner, Dana Blumberg, had become engaged. The couple married in New York City on October 14, 2022.

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Early business career

Kraft began his career with Rand-Whitney Group, a Worcester-based packaging business owned by his father-in-law Jacob Hiatt. He purchased the company in 1968 via a leveraged buyout. He is also the company's chairman. He founded International Forest Products, a physical paper importer in 1972. The two combined companies form the country's largest privately owned paper and packaging firms. Kraft has said he founded the company out of a hunch that the rise in international communications and transportation would result in an expansion of global trade in the late twentieth century.

In 1997, International Forest Products became a top-100 exporter/importer in the United States, and in 2001, it was ranked No. 1 worldwide. In that sector, the Journal of Commerce's list of 7 people is number one. "We do things for a variety of companies, including Avon, Kodak, cosmetics firms, candy companies, and toys," Kraft said of the company in 1991. Both corrugated and folding cartons were produced by the firm, who said, "are used to ship anything from the Patriot missile to mints, to Estee Lauder, Indiana Glass, and Polaroid." Kraft acquired skills in other industries and eventually established the Kraft Group as an umbrella for them in 1998.

Kraft was an investor in New England Television Corp., which acquired the Boston channel 7 license in 1982, and Kraft became a director of the board a year later, replacing the former WNAC-TV. He was named president of the company in 1986. Kraft exercised his right to sell his shares for $25 million in 1991.

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