Keynotes

Daniel A. D'Aniello
Founder, The Carlyle Group

Daniel A. D'Aniello is a co-founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. Mr. D'Aniello is based in Washington, DC.

Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, Mr. D'Aniello was Vice President for Finance and Development at Marriott Corporation ("Marriott") where he was responsible for valuation of all major mergers, acquisition, divestitures, debt and equity offerings, and project financings. Before joining Marriott, Mr. D'Aniello was a financial officer at PepsiCo, Inc. and Trans World Airlines.

He is a 1968 magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, and a 1974 graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was a Teagle Foundation Fellow.

Mr. D'Aniello is a member of The Council for United States and Italy; the Lumen Institute; the U.S.-- China CEO and Former Senior Officials' Dialogue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the Board of Directors of AlpInvest, N.V.; the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Research; the Board of Trustees of Syracuse University, the Chancellor's Council, and the Corporate Advisory Council to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Mr. D'Aniello is the former chairman and former and/or current director of several public and private companies in which Carlyle has or had significant investment interests.

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Guy Hands
Founder & Chairman, Terra Firma

Guy Hands is Terra Firma's Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment General Partners' boards.

Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group. Guy left Goldman's in 1994 to establish the Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc which acquired 15 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of €20 billion. Guy led the spin out of PFG to form Terra Firma in 2002.

Guy has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford University. He was elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in 2000 in recognition of his achievements. Guy is also the President of "Access for Excellence", a campaign based at Mansfield College, Oxford, which promotes the broadest possible access to higher education in the U.K. He is a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a member of the University of Oxford Chancellor's Court of Benefactors. Additionally, Guy is a Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.

Guy is married with four children. His interests include photography, gardens and his family.

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C. Richard Kramlich
Chairman & Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates

Dick began his venture career in 1969 as a General Partner with Arthur Rock and Co. after nine years in general management as Manager of Financial Planning at the Kroger Co. and Investment Management as Executive Vice President at Gardner & Preston Moss Company in Boston. Since co-founding NEA in 1978, he has been involved in nine companies that have grown from start-up or near start-up stage to companies with market value in excess of $1 billion, including Juniper Networks, Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent for $24 billion), ImmuneX (acquired by Amgen for $29 billion), Macromedia (acquired by Adobe for $3.5 billion), and most recently Financial Engines, which sent public in 2010. Dick was the first investor to invest in the Ethernet at 3Com with Bob Metcalfe and an early investor with Dr. John Simpson in balloon angioplasty at Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (acquired by Eli Lilly) as well as Forethought (acquired by Microsoft), the company that originated PowerPoint. Dick continues to work with start-ups such as Force10 Networks, Tabula, Visual Edge, Xoom, and Zhone (public). He recently joined the board of CITIC Pharmaceuticals in China, which is in the process of being acquired for $535 million, and is also a director of Silicon Valley Bank. Dick has received four Lifetime Achievement Awards including awards from the National Venture Capital Association (he served as Chairman and President from 1992-93), the University of California- Haas School of Business, the Silicon Valley Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program, and the Red Herring Magazine Award. He received an Innovation Catalyst Award from the VC Taskforce for outstanding contribution, dedication and leadership in the venture community in 2010, and was honored with a Special Achievement Award at the International Business Forum (IBF) 2010 Venture Capital Investing Conference. He received an MBA from Harvard University and a BS in History from Northwestern University. Dick and his wife, Pamela, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. They are noted collectors of Media Art and founded the New Art Trust to foster best practices in the field in 1997. They have four adult offspring and six grandchildren; they enjoy hiking, traveling, tennis and swimming and recently returned from Shanghai, China where Dick was assisting NEA's China practice.

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Alexander Navab
Co-Head of North American Private Equity, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Alexander Navab joined KKR in 1993. He co-heads KKR's North American Private Equity business and heads the Media and Communications industry team in the U.S. Mr. Navab played a significant role in the development of Borden, Intermedia Communications, IPREO, KSL Recreation, Neway Anchorlok, Newsquest Media, The Nielsen Company (formerly VNU Group), NuVox (NewSouth Communications), PanAmSat, RELTEC, Tenovis, Visant, Yellow Pages Group, Weld North, World Color Press, and Zhone Technologies. He is currently on the board of directors of IPREO, The Nielsen Company, Visant, and Weld North. Mr. Navab is the Co-Chair of KKR's global Private Equity Investment Committee and serves on the Firm's Management Committee.

Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Navab was with James D. Wolfensohn Incorporated where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance advisory work. From 1987 to 1989, he was with Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he worked in the Investment Banking Department. He received a B.A. with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia College, and an M.B.A. with High Distinction, Baker Scholar, Wolfe Award, from the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Navab serves on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation: an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in New York City; he also serves on the Board of Visitors of Columbia College, Columbia University.

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