Sandra Horbach

Advisory Board

Sandra Horbach is a Partner and Chair of Americas Corporate Private Equity at Carlyle, based in New York. She is Vice Chair of the Carlyle Private Equity Partners Board and Chair of its Investment Committee. She is also a member of the firm’s Leadership Committee and serves on several other investment committees. In addition, Ms. Horbach helps drive several of the firm’s strategic growth initiatives including expanding Carlyle’s Private Equity products in the Wealth channel and the integration of Artificial Intelligence and data analytics into investment strategies.

Previously, she was Co-Head of Americas Corporate Private Equity, overseeing more than $70B in assets under management. Since joining Carlyle in 2005, she has led major investments across various industries.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Horbach spent 18 years at the private equity firm Forstmann Little and two years at Morgan Stanley in the M&A department. She earned her MBA from Stanford University and her BA in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. She studied at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1980 and at the National University of Taipei in 1983.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Horbach has served on many corporate and non-profit boards. She currently serves as a director on the Board of Hexaware, is a Trustee at Rockefeller University and Wellesley College, and a member of the Grafine Partners Advisory Board. Ms. Horbach was a member of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Advisory Council for 15 years, including serving as Chair for four years. Ms. Horbach has been recognized in Barron’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Finance and the Yahoo! Finance HERoes Top 100 Women Executives.