The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational private equity,alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $426 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity,real assets,and private credit. It is one of the largest mega-funds in the world. In 2015,Carlyle was the world's largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years,according to the PEI 300 index. In the 2024 ranking however,it had slipped to sixth place.
Providence Equity Partners L.L.C. is a specialist private equity investment firm focused on media,communications,education,and technology investments across North America and Europe. The firm specializes in growth-oriented private equity investments and has invested in more than 170 companies globally since its inception in 1989.
Philip Lader,is a former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and former chairman of WPP plc,the global advertising/communications services firm.
Clifford Michael Sobel is an American business executive,financier,Republican fundraiser,U.S. diplomat and former ambassador.
Norman Roy Blackwell,Baron Blackwell is a British former businessman,public servant,Conservative politician,campaigner and policy advisor.
Karen Kornbluh served as U.S. Ambassador to the OECD under President Barack Obama and as a senior official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission under President Bill Clinton. She is an expert on communications policy,international trade and issues affecting working families. Her profile in The New York Times focused on her efforts “Fighting for Economic Equality.” She is now Director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the United States,a think tank dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation,where she is also a Senior Fellow. She also currently serves as the Chairperson of the board of the Open Technology Fund. She was previously Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Nielsen,Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations,and a presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. She was a senior adviser to Barack Obama from the beginning of his Senate tenure throughout his 2008 presidential campaign.
Ford M. Fraker was a and American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.He was president of the Middle East Policy Council and chairman,Merrill Lynch Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Paul S. Atkins is CEO of Patomak Global Partners LLC,which provides consulting services regarding financial services industry matters,including regulatory compliance,risk and crisis management,public affairs,independent reviews,litigation support,and strategy. He also serves as an independent director and non-executive chairman of the board of BATS Global Markets,Inc.,a leading operator of electronic U.S. and European securities markets trading listed cash equity securities and equity options.
Julius Genachowski is an American lawyer and businessman. He became the Federal Communications Commission Chairman on June 29,2009. On March 22,2013,he announced he would be leaving the FCC in the coming weeks. On January 6,2014,it was announced that Genachowski had joined The Carlyle Group. He transitioned from Partner and Managing Director to Senior Advisor in early 2024.
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner was the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He was sworn in on February 18,2014,and left his post on January 20,2017.
David Marchick is an American attorney,businessman,academic,and diplomat who serves as dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University. He previously served as chief operating officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation during the first year of the Biden administration. He previously served as director of the Center for Presidential Transition,as a senior executive at The Carlyle Group and in four departments in the Clinton administration. He is the co-author of the book,"The Peaceful Transfer of Power:An Oral History of America's Presidential Transitions",published by UVA press.
Robert E. Grady is an American venture capitalist,private equity investor,and former public official. He has worked at such leading investment firms as Robertson Stephens,The Carlyle Group,and Summit Partners,and for a number of elected officials,including former President George H. W. Bush and New Jersey Governors Tom Kean and Chris Christie.
Greg A. Rosenbaum is an American businessman and investor. He is based in Bethesda,Maryland. He is the founder and president of Palisades Associates,a private-equity firm.
Robert A. Schriesheim is an American business executive. According to a published interview with FTI Consulting in November 2021 he has served as a board director of 11 public companies,including as board chairman,and as a CFO of 4 public companies with revenues from approximately $1 billion to over $40 billion. He is chairman of Truax Partners LLC and has partnered with institutional investors leading large enterprises through complex transformations serving in various executive leadership and board roles. According to a 2016 Wall Street Journal article,he has a "history of working in partnership with private equity firms,hedge funds and institutional investors in special situation circumstances". According to Barron's and CFO magazine,Schriesheim has "spent most of his career at the high end of the strategy spectrum,embroiled in complex restructurings" focused on capital allocation. He is also an adjunct professor at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he teaches a course titled "Corporate Governance and Activism:The Role of Boards in Critical Decisions".
Kenneth A. Hersh is an American businessman and financier. He is the former chairman and CEO of NGP Energy Capital Management (NGP),a private equity firm based in Texas. He is the CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
Joël AndréOrnstein,a French-born financier. He is the Chairman,Managing Partner and co-founder of Monument Capital Group Holdings LLC,a private equity investment firm. He has been based for long periods in New York where he started his career as an investment banker in the early 1980s. He has worked in alternative and private equity investing since 1989 when he established Majorn Corp.,as a joint venture partner of The Carlyle Group and Euris-Rallye group.
Hamilton Evans "Tony" James is an American billionaire investment banker. He is the former president,chief operating officer,and executive vice chairman of Blackstone,a New York–based global asset management firm. James has been chairman of the multinational retail chain Costco from August 2017. Since 2021,he has been co-chair of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
MFA,,is a Washington,DC-based industry group representing the alternative asset management industry.
James Albert Attwood Jr. is an American businessman. He serves as a Senior Advisor at The Carlyle Group and chairman of Syniverse Technologies. He is a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and EVP of Verizon Communications. He was a major donor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
Kewsong Lee is a Korean-American businessman who is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
