Carlyle promotes eight to managing director
Catherine Craig
15 Feb 2008
The Carlyle Group has promoted 30 executives to senior positions in the company, eight to managing director – the most senior role below those of senior adviser, founder and chairman – and 22 to director.
The promotions include 15 in North America - including seven in Washington, six in New York and two in Mexico. There were 11 in Europe, including one in Poland, and four in Asia.
Jonathan Bylin and Jim McGee, senior staff in investor relations, were among those promoted to the role of managing director in New York taking Carlyle’s stable of senior investor relations employees to 13 globally across its 57 active funds.
Last year Carlyle raised a €5.35bn ($7.8bn) European buyout fund as well as $1.15bn for infrastructure investments in the US and Canada, and it is also currently raising a real estate fund and Middle Eastern fund.
Investing across four investment disciplines - buyouts, venture and growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance, the group has a total of $75.6bn in funds under management.
Among the newly promoted managing directors was Vladimir Lasocki, who focuses on the group’s investments in Central and Eastern Europe from offices in Warsaw.
Lasocki is currently a member of the board of directors of Belgian portfolio company Transics International, which Carlyle bought in 2006 and Wall Street Institute Education, a provider of English language tuition.
The following is the full list of promotions for the firm:
• New managing directors
Janet Andre – administration; Washington, DC
Gary Bleiberg – accounting for US leveraged finance; New York
Jonathan Bylin – investor relations; New York
Patricia Gallagher – accounting for equity; Washington, DC
Hayden Jones – real estate; Washington, DC
Robert Konigsberg – accounting for global real estate; Washington, DC
Vladimir Lasocki – Central Eastern Europe buyouts; Warsaw
Jim McGee – investor relations; New York
• New principals/directors
Zeina Bain – Europe buyouts; London
Nicolas Debetencourt – global infrastructure buyouts; New York
Nilesh Desai – European leveraged finance; London
Pierre-Olivier Desplanches – Europe buyouts; Paris
Cam Dyer – US buyouts; Charlotte, NC
Rodrigo Fonseca – Mexico buyout; Mexico City
Mark Harris – Europe real estate; London
Chris Hodges – Europe technology; London
Brannan Johnston – US leveraged finance; New York
Rachel Lupiani – Europe real estate; Barcelona,Paris
Edward Man – Asia buyout; Hong Kong
Thomas Mayrhofer – Corporate development; Washington, DC
Nazo Moosa – Europe technology; London
Nancy Palleschi – Investor relations for global conference and events; Washington, DC
Adrian Siew – Asia buyout; Sydney
Charles Steel – Europe buyout; London
Miguel Valenzuela – Mexico buyout; Mexico City
Elliot Wagner – US buyout; Washington, DC
Carolyn Weimer – Investor relations and strategic resources; Washington, DC
Jonathan Zafrani – Europe buyouts; Paris
Elena Zhang – Asia growth capital; Hong Kong
Eric Zhang – Asia buyout; Hong Kong