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The Carlyle Group promotes 15 professionals to senior positions

US-based private equity giant The Carlyle Group has promoted five professionals to managing director and ten to principal/director to prepare itself for a busy year ahead.

Matthew Boyer, Jeffrey Ferguson, Ian Fujiyama, Ryan Schwarz and Kazuhiro Yamada are now managing directors. The new principal/directors are Jay Bu, Allen Cashion, JP Gan, Vladmir Lasocki, James McGee, Georg Nolting-Hauff, Guido Funes Nova, Steve Rosengarten, Chris Ullman and Alex Ying.

Daniel A D'Aniello, Carlyle co-founder and managing director, said, 'Carlyle's success is the result of talented people working hard, working smart and working as a team. I am pleased to congratulate these 15 individuals for their commitment to excellence and for helping Carlyle have its best year ever.'

Carlyle recently held a first close on its latest US buy-out fund with more than $5bn of commitments and is expected to hold a final close at the end of the first quarter in the region of $6.5bn. It is also in the advanced stages of raising its second dedicated European buy-out fund. Boyer, based in New York, focuses on US buy-out transactions in the telecommunications sector with an emphasis on the wireline and wireless industries.

Ferguson, Fujiyama and Schwarz are based in Washington, DC. Ferguson is the general counsel for Carlyle; Fujiyama concentrates on US buy-out investments in the consumer and retail sectors; and Schwarz focuses on US venture opportunities in the healthcare sector. Yamada focuses on Japanese buy-out opportunities in the automotive, corporate outsourcing services and industrial sectors and is based in Tokyo.

Bu, based in Seoul, focuses on Asia buy-out opportunities in the telecommunications & media sectors.

Cashion, based in Newport Beach, concentrates on US real estate opportunities on the West Coast.

Milan-based Funes Nova's focus is on European buy-out opportunities.

Gan is based in Hong Kong and focuses on Asian venture opportunities in the technology and consumer sectors.

Lasocki, based in London, concentrates on European opportunities in the telecommunications and technology sectors.

McGee raises capital for Carlyle funds from North American institutional and high-net-worth investors and is based in New York.

Munich-based Nolting-Hauff focuses on European buy-out opportunities in the industrial sector.

Rosengarten's focus is on European buy-out opportunities in the telecommunications and industrial sectors and he is based in London.

Ullman develops and implements Carlyle's global communications activities and is based in Washington, DC.

Ying, based in Hong Kong, focuses on Asian buy-out opportunities.

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