Founder of The Carlyle Group, Inc. and Carlyle Group Management LLC, David M. Rubenstein is a businessperson who has been the head of 7 different companies and currently holds the position of Executive Co-Chairman at The Carlyle Group, Inc. and Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director at Carlyle Group Management LLC and Managing Director at TCG Holdings LLC (both are subsidiaries of The Carlyle Group, Inc.).

He is also Chairman for Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., Chairman for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President at The Economic Club of Washington, Member of American Philosophical Society, Chairman-Madison Council at The Library of Congress (District of Columbia), Member of The Business Council, Member-International Business Council at The World Economic Forum USA, Inc., Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Managing Director at TCG Holdings LLC and on the board of 20 other companies.

David M. Rubenstein previously held the position of Principal at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Principal at Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, Chief Counsel at United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Chairman of Duke University.

David M. Rubenstein received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a graduate degree from The University of Chicago Law School.