Wayne Tsou is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and is the Managing Partner of the Carlyle Asia Venture and Growth Capital Group.  Headquartered in Hong Kong, he is responsible for leading Carlyle's venture and growth capital investments in the Asia-Pacific region managing six offices across China, India, Japan and Korea.  The Carlyle Group is the premier global private equity firm with over $35 billion under management.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Tsou spent seven years at Warburg Pincus, and was a Managing Director, head of technology investments for Asia including Japan and a member of Warburg Pincus’ Global Information Technology Group and Global Communications Group.  Mr. Tsou has led a number of prominent growth capital deals in Asia including Warburg Pincus'investments in Harbour Networks, AsiaInfo Holdings and Datang Microelectronics.  Prior to Warburg Pincus, Mr. Tsou worked at Morgan Stanley and Lazard Frères where he was involved in the privatization of major telecom operators in South East Asia and M&A activities of large US technology companies. 

Mr. Tsou holds a Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.  He is a native of Shanghai.