Rank #918
Daniel D'Aniello
Net worth $4.7B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Sep 14, 1946
- Age
- 79
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- Vienna, Virginia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Syracuse University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Daniel D'Aniello is one of three billionaire founders of private equity firm Carlyle Group.
- He stepped down as chairman in 2018 and now serves as chairman emeritus of Carlyle, which has $453 billion in assets under management.
- D'Aniello worked at Trans World Airlines, Pepsi and Marriott before joining William Conway Jr. and David Rubenstein to start Carlyle in 1987.
- He attended Syracuse University on a scholarship, studying transportation economics, and later got his MBA at Harvard.
- A Vietnam War veteran, D'Aniello contributed $20 million to Syracuse University's National Veterans Resource Center in 2018.
- He is the chairman of the Virginia-based performing arts nonprofit Wolf Trap Foundation where First Lady Jill Biden is the honorary chair.
- He worked 60 hours a week in the summers and 20 hours a week during school as a stock boy in a produce market from age 9 until graduation.
- D'Aniello was on the gymnastics team at Syracuse University.
- He was the only child of a single mother who worked four jobs simultaneously for 25 years to keep them above the poverty line.
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