Alex Chi

Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Global Credit and Head of Direct Lending at Carlyle

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Alex Chi is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Global Credit and Head of Direct Lending at Carlyle, and Chief Executive Officer of Carlyle’s affiliated Business Development Companies. He sits on the Global Credit Investment Committee and is a member of the firm’s Leadership Committee. He is based in New York.

Mr. Chi joined Carlyle in 2026. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was a Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 31 years and most recently served as Co-Head of Americas Direct Lending within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He also served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of Goldman Sachs’ affiliated Business Development Companies and was a member of the Asset & Wealth Management Private Credit Investment Committee.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Chi spent 25 years in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs in a variety of leadership roles across the Financial and Strategic Investors Group, Leveraged Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Capital Markets, and Information Technology in New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. He also served on the firm’s Global Diversity & Inclusion Council and was global head of the Asian Network, which he co-founded.

Mr. Chi currently serves on the National Advisory Council of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM), the Board of Directors of the JED Foundation, and the National Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. He also previously served three terms on the Board of Directors of the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF).

Mr. Chi earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.