Richard G. Darman is a Senior Advisor to the firm. He advises Carlyle management on strategic business matters as well as Carlyle's buyout, venture, growth capital, technology, energy and infrastructure teams on their business and investing activities.
Prior to joining Carlyle in February 1993, Mr. Darman served as Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and as a member of President Bush's Cabinet. Additionally, Mr. Darman held senior policy positions under four Presidents in six Cabinet Departments and the White House. These positions included: Assistant to the President of the United States (1981-85); Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1985-87); and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1976-77). In the private sector, Mr. Darman was Managing Director of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc. (1987-89) and Principal and Director of ICF, Inc. (1974-75, 1977-80).
Mr. Darman is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a former member of the Harvard faculty.
Mr. Darman is a Trustee of the Loomis Sayles Funds, IXIS Funds, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chairman of the Board of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; and Chairman of the Board of AES Corporation. |