Carling O’Brien
Co-Founder in New York
Carling O’Brien co-founded Emerald Lake Capital Management, a private equity firm with over $1 billion AUM. Ms. O’Brien served as one of two partners in Emerald Lake’s management company.
At Emerald Lake, Carling was involved in sourcing, evaluating, executing, and closing investments, recruiting executive advisors and portfolio executives, hiring investment professionals and support staff, capital raising, and portfolio management (including serving on the Boards of Directors of City Ventures and Inno-Pak).
Carling was involved in developing the investment opportunities, fundraising, and deploying Emerald Lake Grizzly, PD, Packaging, and Edison (aka Electrical Source) Acquisition Funds. In addition, Ms. O'Brien developed and led sourcing of Emerald Lake MCG (nka Mission Critical Group). Prior to co-founding Emerald Lake, Carling was a member of the investment team within Ares Management's Private Equity Group and was involved in numerous transaction processes and portfolio companies across a broad range of industries, including Floor & Decor, a hard surface flooring retailer. Before that, she was a member of the US Private Equity investment team at Investcorp International. At Investcorp, she participated as a board observer for CCC Information Services and FleetPride. Prior to Investcorp, Ms. O’Brien advised sponsors and their portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and IPOs as an investment banker at Barclays Capital (former Lehman Brothers) in the Financial Sponsors Group. She served on the YP Board of Breakthrough New York, a non-profit enrichment program for low-income middle school youth. Ms. O’Brien received a B.S.E., cum laude, in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA, with distinction, from the London Business School.
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