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Harvey Schwartz
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Harvey Schwartz

American investment banker (born 1964)

Harvey M. Schwartz (born March 11, 1964) is an American investment banker and business executive who has been chief executive officer (CEO) of The Carlyle Group, the world's sixth-largest private equity firm, since February 2023. He worked at Goldman Sachs from 1997 to 2018, rising through the position of chief financial officer to that of president and co-chief operating officer.2

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Companies

Holdings

Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.

Shares held

  • Carlyle Group CG5,273,362 shares13$191.7M at $36.35Aug 26, 2026
  • SoFi SOFI361,289 shares14$5.2M at $14.38May 21, 2024

As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.

Recent filings

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedColumbia Business School3
  • Date not recordedRutgers University3

Schwartz was born in Morristown, New Jersey. His father was a scientist. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University in 1987. In 1996, he received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Career

  • Since 2023Chief executive, Carlyle Group5
  • Date not recordedWorked at Goldman Sachs4
  • Date not recordedChief operating officer6
  • Date not recordedPresident6

Schwartz began his career in 1987 at J. B. Hanauer & Co., and then moved to First Interregional Equity Corporation. In 1989, Schwartz joined Citigroup, where he worked in the firm's credit training program and developed a specialty in structuring commodity derivatives.

Schwartz joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 as a vice president in its commodities trading business, J. Aron & Co., which the investment bank had previously acquired in 1981. At Goldman Sachs, he held senior executive leadership roles overseeing sales and trading, finance, technology and operations. He was the firm's chief financial officer beginning in 2012, and then president and co-COO starting in 2016, with David M. Solomon being the other co-COO. Schwartz departed Goldman Sachs in 2018, and shortly afterward Solomon was designated as the successor to outgoing CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Schwartz joined the board of directors of SoFi Technologies as the company became public in early 2021 and later stepped down in 2024. In November 2021, Schwartz assumed the role of group chairperson and non-executive director of The Bank of London. The Bank of London is a privately held global company with a $1.1bn valuation, which provides clearing, agency, and transaction banking services. In October 2024, he left these roles at the bank. Schwartz sits on the board of One Mind, a research and mental health advocacy nonprofit organization.

Schwartz supported Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election by contributing at least $100,000 to the Biden Action Fund.

Schwartz became CEO of the Carlyle Group on February 15, 2023. He was appointed to the position by the firm's board of directors following a six-month search.

In 2023, Schwartz's total compensation from the Carlyle Group was $187 million, representing a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio of 813-to-1 for the company, as well as making Schwartz the second highest paid CEO in the US that year.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States7

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