Panelist - Robert D. Brown
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Founded in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a global diversified private equity firm with $86 billion in assets under management through 64 separate funds. These funds have been formed to pursue buyout, venture/growth equity, real estate, high yield, distressed debt and mezzanine investments globally.

Bob joined Carlyle in 1999 and focuses on the firm's North America fundraising and investor relations activities. During his time with Carlyle, he has focused on raising capital for the firm's various investment partnerships including funds and coinvestments. In addition, he has been an active participant in product development, fund formation and marketing strategy for these same partnerships. Since 1999, Carlyle has raised more than $100 billion for 70 newly formed investment funds. Bob also serves on the firm’s Coordinating Committee for capital formation.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Bob was a Vice President in the Private Equity Group at Merrill Lynch from 1994 to 1999. During his tenure at Merrill, he was responsible for raising private equity, real estate, hedge fund, coinvestment capital and direct private placements for almost 100 transactions. Select sponsor clients included Cinven, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Colony Capital, Exxel Group, GP Group, H.I.G. Capital Management, H&Q Asia Pacific, Industri Kapital, J.W. Childs Associates, KKR, Long Term Capital Management, Maverick Capital, Oak Hill Capital, Silver Lake Partners, Spectrum Equity, Starwood Capital, Warburg Pincus and Zell Equity.

Bob received his B.A. from Southern Methodist University and his M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1992 and 1994, respectively.