Mr. Xiangdong YANG

Managing Director and Co-Head Chairman Carlyle Asia Partners

Xiang-Dong (X.D.) Yang

Xiang-Dong (X.D.) Yang, Managing Director and Co-Head, Carlyle Asia Partners

Xiang-Dong (X.D.) Yang has been Managing Director and Co-Head of Carlyle Asia Partners since 2001. Carlyle Asia Partners, established in 1998, is one of the largest and most active private equity investors in Asia that make large control and strategic minority investments throughout non-Japan Asia.  

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Yang spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director, Co-Head of Goldman's private equity investment arm for Asia ex-Japan and a member of its Asia Management Committee.

Mr. Yang received his B.A. in economics from Harvard University and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Yang is a native of the P.R.C.