David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $369 billion from 29 offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats. Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book). Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story, How to Lead, The American Experiment, and How to Invest.

Mr. Goodman co-founded Hunter Point Capital and serves as its Executive Chairman. Prior to HPC, Mr. Goodman was a Co-Founder of GSO Capital Partners (“GSO”), the credit arm of The Blackstone Group, now Blackstone Credit, where he focused on managing and growing a $125 billion investment platform. Before GSO, Mr. Goodman was the Managing Partner of the Alternative Capital Division of Credit Suisse, which he joined following their acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”) where he was Global Head of Leverage Finance and PE Sponsor Coverage. Mr. Goodman joined DLJ as the founder of their High Yield Capital Markets Group after starting his career in the high yield business at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Goodman currently sits on the board of the Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Central Park Conservancy. He previously served on Blackstone’s Board of Directors. He was also the recipient of Institutional Investor’s 2012 Money Manager of the Year Award and the Euromoney Magazine’s 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Goodman earned his B.S. in Engineering from Lafayette College and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.