Tanaka J.J. Maswoswe

Tanaka Maswoswe is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group focused on US buyout opportunities in the industrial and transportation sectors, based in Washington, D.C., US.

Mr. Maswoswe has been a key contributor to several of the firm’s investments, including Axalta Coating Systems (formerly DuPont Performance Coatings), Signode Industrial Group, Atotech, and Nouryon. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was the inaugural Toigo Private Equity MBA Fellow at Carlyle. During this Fellowship, he completed a year-long rotation through Carlyle’s US Buyout group, a Carlyle portfolio company, and the Alternative Investment Management team at CalPERS. Prior to business school, he worked as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Diversified Industrials Group at Barclays Capital.

Mr. Maswoswe is also a member of the board of directors of Nobian.

Mr. Maswoswe received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics from Yale University.