Stephen W Bailey

Bio

Stephen W. Bailey is a Managing Director primarily focused on small and middle market buyout and growth capital investment opportunities in software, systems and business services sectors. He is based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2005, Mr. Bailey served as Vice President and head of Corporate Development at Dell. In these positions, Mr. Bailey was responsible for the company's strategic investment, mergers and acquisitions and other business partner relationship activity. Mr. Bailey was actively involved in Dell's investments in Altiris (acquired by Symantec), Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB), Entercept (acquired by McAfee), Giganet (acquired by Emulex), OSA (acquired by Avocent), Pentasafe (acquired by NetIQ), SiteSmith (acquired by Metromedia Fiber), Topspin (acquired by Cisco) and webMethods (acquired by Software AG). Mr. Bailey also served as Vice President of Finance in the Americas Business Group at Dell. In this role, he managed strategic and financial planning, accounting, reporting and business controls for Dell's largest region. Mr. Bailey previously was a Principal with ABS Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and he held positions in 3Com's Business Development Group and in the investment banking division of Alex. Brown. Mr. Bailey is a member of the Board of Directors of Authentix, Observint Technologies, Panasas, Primatics Financial, Quorum Business Solutions and RMI. Mr. Bailey is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.