DANIEL A. D’ANIELLO is Co-founder, Chairman Emeritus, member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Carlyle Group, a public global alternative asset management firm based in Washington, D.C. operating across six continents. Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, he served as a Vice President for Finance and Development at Marriott Corporation and a financial officer at PepsiCo Inc. and Trans World Airlines.
He is a 1968 magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University; member of Beta Gamma Sigma; and a 1974 graduate of Harvard Business School, where he was a Teagle Foundation Fellow.
Mr. D’Aniello served in the United States Navy from 1968 through 1971 during which time he was a Distinguished Naval Graduate of Officer Candidate School, Newport R.I.; a Supply Officer (LTJG) aboard the USS Wasp (CVS 18); and in 2016 was awarded the designation of Lone Sailor by the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation.
Mr. D’Aniello is Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Co-Chairman of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families; Chairman of the Wolf Trap Foundation of the Performing Arts; an Advisor to the John Templeton Foundation; a founding Trustee of the Lumen Institute; and a Lifetime Member of the Board of Trustees of Syracuse University, a member of the Chancellor’s Council and a member of the Corporate Advisory Council to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
The inaugural chair holder is to be named.