Carlyle Promotes 34

The Carlyle Group has promoted 34 professionals to senior positions, 16 to Managing Director and 18 to Principal/Director. They are: Colin Atkins, David Daniel, Marc Demumieux, Yi Luo, Masato Marumo, Eliot Merrill, Charlie Moore, Stephen Owens, Thomas Ray, Lori Sabet, Catherine Simoni, Michael Stewart, Takaomi Tomioka, Alex Wagenberg, Michael Wand and Brent Whisenant. The new Principal/Directors promoted from Vice President/Associate Director are: Dan Bellissimo, Brian Bernasek, Sameer Bhargava, Han Chen, Jacques Galante, Ryan Harris, Markus Hoffman, Mark Johnson, Horoshi Kawahara, Marilyn Lucas, Andrew Marino, Heather Mitchell, Thaddeus Paul, David Pearson, Nicholas Shao, Koichiro Taniyama, David Willich and Feng Xiao. (Principals and Directors are the same level in Carlyle parlance; Principal is the title used in the < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />U.S. and Director is the title used in Europe and Asia.)< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />