Shane Clifford

Shane Clifford is a Partner and Head of Global Wealth at Carlyle, based in New York, and a member of Carlyle's Leadership Committee. His background spans both institutional and wealth distribution across alternative asset management. He leads Carlyle's Global Wealth distribution business, bringing institutional-quality private markets products to individual investors across a global footprint — with a particular focus on the firm's growing suite of evergreen, perpetual-capital vehicles. Shane has over 25 years of industry experience in business development and strategy across alternative asset management and financial services. Prior to Carlyle, he was a Senior Managing Director at Franklin Templeton, where he led global growth strategy and business development for the firm's alternatives platform across both institutional and wealth channels. Earlier, he held senior leadership roles at Legg Mason subsidiaries EnTrustPermal and Permal Group, building and running global business development teams — spanning sales, investor relations, client service, and marketing — that served both institutional and private wealth clients globally. He began his career at Merrill Lynch before spending several years at BlackRock across the U.S., UK, Middle East and Latin America. He is a graduate of the University of Limerick, Ireland, and holds an MBA from Boston University's Questrom School of Business.