Ex-Goldman analyst and sixteen-year private equity veteran Nancy Ford recently became a KKR MD based in San Francisco. : Ex-Goldman analyst and sixteen-year private equity veteran Nancy Ford recently became a KKR MD based in San Francisco. Sixteen-year private equity veteran Nancy Ford joined $140bn PE giant KKR’s San Francisco office last month as a managing director. KKR has been expanding globally, hiring in Europe and Asia, including opening new offices in China, and in the U.S. has been making replacement hires and growing headcount at its New York headquarters, Houston, San Francisco and Menlo Park, California.