David M. Rubenstein is a businessperson who founded The Carlyle Group, Inc. and Carlyle Group Management LLC and who has been the head of 7 different companies. Presently, he occupies the position of Executive Co-Chairman at The Carlyle Group, Inc. and Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director at Carlyle Group Management LLC and Managing Director at TCG Holdings LLC (both are subsidiaries of The Carlyle Group, Inc.). David M. Rubenstein is also Chairman for Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., Chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President at The Economic Club of Washington, Chairman-Madison Council at The Library of Congress (District of Columbia), Managing Director at TCG Holdings LLC, Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Member of American Philosophical Society, Member of The Business Council and Member-International Business Council at The World Economic Forum USA, Inc. and on the board of 22 other companies. In the past he was Principal at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Principal at Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, Deputy Assistant at Domestic Policy Council, Chief Counsel at United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Chairman of Duke University and Member of The Phi Beta Kappa Society. He received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a graduate degree from The University of Chicago Law School.