Keynote Speakers

Dan D’Aniello
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group

  

Daniel A. D’Aniello is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. He is based in Washington, DC.

Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, Mr. D’Aniello was Vice President for Finance and Development at Marriott Corporation where he was responsible for valuation of all major mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity offerings, and project financings. Before joining Marriott, he was a financial officer at Pepsico and TWA.

Mr. D'Aniello 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.

Carl Ferenbach
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC

  

Carl Ferenbach is a co-founder and has been a Managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm based in Boston, MA, since its founding in the early 1980s.  Berkshire has managed seven private equity  investment funds with approximately $7.0 billion of capital and the Firm has completed over 100 acquisitions.  Mr. Ferenbach has served as Chairman of the Board of English Welsh and Scottish Railway Ltd. (Britain’s leading rail freight operator), US Can Corporation (a leader in metal packaging for a range of consumer products), and Crown Castle International Corporation (a leading supplier of infrastructure and services to the wireless communications industry).  He has served as a director of a number of other Berkshire portfolio companies. 

Mr. Ferenbach is Chairman of the Board of Environmental Defense Fund, an international environmental advocacy NGO.  He is co-founder of High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows Fund.  He is a former Trustee of Princeton University and a director of Princeton Investment Company.  He has served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School. 

Mr. Ferenbach received an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He served in the US Marine Corps Reserve.

He and his wife, Judy, own High Meadows Associates, Inc. which operates farms in southern Vermont producing maple, wood and grass based products.

Paul J. Salem
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners

  
Paul Salem is a co-founder and senior managing director at Providence. Mr. Salem is currently a director of Education Management Corp., NEW Asurion and NexTag. He established Providence’s London office in 1999 and returned to the firm’s Providence office in 2001. Before joining Providence, Mr. Salem worked for Morgan Stanley in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to this, Mr. Salem spent four years with Prudential Investment Corporation, an affiliate of Prudential Insurance, where his responsibilities included private placement financings, leveraged buyout transactions and helping establish Prudential’s European office. Mr. Salem received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Mr. Salem is chairman of Year Up Rhode Island and a trustee of St. John’s High School.