Ex-KKR Executive Karr Narula Joins Health-Care Buyout Shop (1)

Karr Narula, who spent more than a decade at KKR & Co. before leaving the alternative asset manager last year, has joined health care-focused private equity firm Patient Square Capital as a founding partner.

Narula, 41, the former Americas chief of KKR’s portfolio-operations team -- known as KKR Capstone -- will oversee Patient Square’s transformation and growth unit, the company said Tuesday in a statement, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report. He’ll be reunited with Jim Momtazee, who was head of the Americas health-care team at KKR and spent more than 20 years at the firm before leaving ...