Primary Job Title Managing Director and Partner Primary Organization The Carlyle Group
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investment Partner
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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.