Sandra Horbach, MBA ’87

Managing Director & Co-Head of US Buyouts, The Carlyle Group

Sandra Horbach is a managing director and Co-Head of US Buyouts at The Carlyle Group where she oversees Carlyle’s two largest private equity funds with approximately $40 billion in capital under management. The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset management firm with $170 billion in assets under management.

Sandra joined Carlyle in 2005 to launch the Consumer & Retail Group and has since led all of Carlyle’s U.S. consumer investments, including Acosta Sales & Marketing, Beats Electronics, CVC Brasil, Dunkin’ Brands, Philosophy, The Nature’s Bounty Co., and Vogue.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Sandra was a general partner with Forstmann Little & Co. for 18 years. Sandra earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and her BA from Wellesley College.

Sandra currently serves as a director on the boards of Acosta, Dunkin’ Brands, and Novolex. She also serves as chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council and is a trustee at Rockefeller University