From a UK TimesOnLine article, which, while helpfully disclosing the Jewish ethnicity of Krieger's parents, neglects to point out the broader Jewish connection between Salomon Brothers, George Soros and his Sanskrit scholar protogé :
Krieger is the chief executive of North Bridge Capital, a currency trading firm. But the money markets are no longer his passion. His heart and mind are in India. He was ten years old when he began to nurture a love of the subcontinent, its people, culture and religions.

“I picked up a book on yoga and Western philosophy and was fascinated. I was way too iconoclastic for things like the Beatles.” His parents, a conventional Jewish couple from Wilmington, Delaware, thought he was a bit “whacked out”.

Krieger left university with a degree in Western philosophy and a PhD in Sanskrit, but chose not to continue as a translator of ancient Hindu texts. His professor suggested that he study for an MBA. “It’s like a credit card for people who don’t know what to do,” Krieger says.

After taking the advice of a friend, who told him to shave, Krieger was hired as a foreign exchange trader by Salomon Brothers in the summer of 1984. In 1986 he became global head of currency options trading at Bankers Trust, where he increased profits from $56 million to $512 million in a year.

However, he had a disagreement with the firm over his bonus and left. He joined George Soros and was being groomed to be the great man’s successor, but instead, in 1988, he set up his own firm.

Krieger had an unorthodox approach to trading currency options. “When I was trading, most of my insights came to me in dreams,” he says. “There is a way of training the mind to visualise that is based in ancient yogic teaching.”