Sandra Horbach

Sandra Horbach is a Managing Director & Co-Head of US Buyout & Growth at The Carlyle Group where she oversees Carlyle’s four largest private equity funds with $60 billion in capital under management.

Throughout her career, Ms. Horbach has led private equity teams across industries ranging from consumer, industrials, healthcare, aerospace and defense, as well as technology. Today, she oversees all industry verticals in the US after joining Carlyle in 2005 to launch and build the Consumer & Retail Group. Ms. Horbach has led many of Carlyle’s U.S. consumer investments that have been successfully realized, including some of the most recognized deals in the sector – Beats Electronics, CVC Brasil, Dunkin’ Brands, Philosophy, The Nature’s Bounty Co. and Vogue.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Horbach was a General Partner with Forstmann Little & Co. Before Forstmann Little, Ms. Horbach spent 2 years in the M&A department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Ms. Horbach earned her M.B.A. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Wellesley College.

Ms. Horbach currently serves as a director on the Board of Novolex and is a member of Carlyle’s Diversity & Inclusion Council. She serves as a Trustee at Rockefeller University & Wellesley College and was formerly Chair of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.