Robert Karr

Joho Capital, LLC Principal and Hollyhock Foundation, Founder

Robert Karr was principal of Joho Capital from 1996 to 2014, and now manages investments for the Joho family office. Prior to founding Joho, he ran Tiger Management in Tokyo. Bob is the co-founder and director of the Hollyhock Foundation since 2003. Hollyhock is a seed funder to the Stanford Hollyhock Fellows program, Zearn, Generation Teach, and Harvard Teaching Fellows. Bob is on the boards of The Japan Society, UKA, Uncommon Schools, Generation Teach, Horizons at St. David’s School, and Zearn, and is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Education Advisory Council and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Campaign Executive Committee.

Bob has a B.A. in economics from Stanford University (1984) and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1990) and grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He is married to Suzanne Karr and has one son in high school and another in college.