Harvey Schwartz named CEO of Carlyle

Carlyle has appointed Harvey M. Schwartz as CEO and a member of the board of directors.

Bill Conway will step down as interim CEO, maintaining his role as co-chairman of the board.

Schwartz is the former president and co-COO of The Goldman Sachs Group. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 and has held numerous senior leadership positions including CFO, global co-head of the Americas Financing Group. He also served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee and co-headed its  Risk Committee, Steering Committee on Regulatory Reform, Capital Committee and Finance Committee. Mr. Schwartz established the firm’s Investment Policy Committee on which he also served as a member.

Schwartz previously spent a decade working at several financial firms, including Citicorp, from 1990 through 1997.