Bio

Ashley S. Evans is a Managing Director in the Technology, Media, and Telecom group based in Menlo Park. She primarily focuses on buyout and growth equity investments in enterprise software businesses. Since joining Carlyle in 2006, Ms. Evans has invested or managed equity commitments exceeding $4 billion in initial value. She is currently a member of the boards of HireVue, Jagex, NEOGOV, TriNetX, Veritas, and ZoomInfo. She has previously been involved in the firm’s prior investments in Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI), PQ (sold to CCMP) and Veyance (sold to Continental). Prior to joining Carlyle, she worked at Morgan Stanley, where she focused on financial institutions banking. Ms. Evans received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MPhil from Cambridge University, where she was a Knox Scholar, and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a founder of SynGAP Research Fund, a public charity focused on improving the lives of SynGAP patients through the research and development of precision treatments.