Board of Directors
BRIAN HAYHURST
Managing Director
The Carlyle Group
Brian W. Hayhurst is a Managing Director with the U.S. Growth Capital and U.S. Equity Opportunity funds focusing on a broad range of small and middle market equity transactions. Mr. Hayhurst is based in Washington D.C.
Since joining Carlyle in 1997, Mr. Hayhurst has been actively involved with and served on the Boards of AnyDay (sold to Palm Computing (Nasdaq: PALM)), Narrative Communications (sold to @Home Corporation), Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB), ISR Solutions, Inc. (sold to Stanley Works (NYSE: SWK)), Imagitas (sold to Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), LVL7 Systems (sold to Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), Sonitrol Holding Corporation (sold to Stanley Works (NYSE: SWK)), Compusearch Software Systems, Inc. (sold to a syndicate of private equity firms) and Schoolnet, Inc. (sold to Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO)).
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Hayhurst worked in the Merchant Banking Funds of Morgan Keegan, Inc., where he was one of two principal investors. Previously, Mr. Hayhurst served for eight years in the corporate audit and merger & acquisitions services group at Deloitte & Touche.
Mr. Hayhurst is currently on the Board of Directors of Archive Systems Inc., DHS Technologies, LLC, eScreen, Inc. and Primatics Financial, Inc.
Mr. Hayhurst is also on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA), an organization of 375 investment professionals from 135 firms.
Mr. Hayhurst was honored with the 2005 Financier of the Year award by The Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC Technology Councils.
Mr. Hayhurst is an honors graduate of Rhodes College.