Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 9
CB Rank (Investor) 86,973
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Stephen W. Bailey is a Managing Director and Partner at the Carlyle Group where he is primarily focused on small and middle market buyouts 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 and Dell Ventures at Dell.

In these positions, Mr. Bailey was responsible for the company's strategic venture 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.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Authentix, Panasas, RMI, Supercircuits, TradeBeam, and TrenStar.

Mr. Bailey is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Number of Partner Investments 6
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 4
Stephen Bailey is the Managing Director and Partner at The Carlyle Group. Additionally, Stephen Bailey has had 4 past jobs including Associate at WilmerHale.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
WilmerHale
Associate
Dell
Vice President and Head of Corporate Development
Frontier Strategy Group
Chief Product Officer
ABS Capital Partners
Principal
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 9
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 6
Stephen Bailey holds 9 board and advisor roles including Member at Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Board Member at Panasas, and Board Member at Authentix.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Giganet
Investor
PentaSafe
Investor
Altiris
Investor
Entercept
Investor
RMI
Board Member
Blackboard
Investor