Daniel D’Aniello

Daniel Anthony D’Aniello is an American billionaire businessman. He is the cofounder and chairman of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.

• Daniel D’Aniello is one of three billionaire founders of private equity firm Carlyle Group.
• He stepped down as chairman in January 2018 and now serves as chairman emeritus of Carlyle, which has $222 billion in assets under management.
• D’Aniello worked at Trans World Airlines, Pepsi and Marriott before joining William Conway Jr. and David Rubenstein to start Carlyle in 1987.
• He attended Syracuse University on a scholarship, studying transportation economics, and later got his MBA at Harvard.
• A Vietnam War veteran, D’Aniello contributed $20 million to Syracuse University‘s National Veterans Resource Center in 2018.
• He is the chairman of the Virginia-based performing arts nonprofit Wolf Trap Foundation where First Lady Melania Trump is the honorary chair.