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Vladimir Lasocki is a Managing Director with Europe Technology focused on buyouts and expansion capital investment opportunities in healthcare, industrial, technology & business services and telecom & media in France and the Benelux. Mr Lasocki is based in London.
Since joining Carlyle in 2000, Mr Lasocki has been actively involved with Carlyle’s investment in current portfolio companies Groupe Marle, Companeo and Metrologic. He has earlier been responsible for Carlyle’s successful investments in Egencia (acquired by Expedia), Orthogon Systems (acquired by Motorola), Cameca (acquired by Ametek) and Transics (NYSE:TRAN); and was a member of the transaction team that executed Carlyle’s investment in Wall Street Institute (acquired by Pearson).
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Lasocki was an Associate with Deutsche Bank's principal investments group between 1998 and 2000 and with the corporate finance group of Paribas in London and Prague.
Mr. Lasocki has a degree in business administration from EM Lyon and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay Business School) and an M.A. in European economic studies from the College of Europe in Bruges.
Mr. Lasocki is a member of the Board of Directors of Marle International, Transics International NV (Euronext:TRAN), Companeo and Tridimension Holding (Metrologic Group, Euronext:MTG), and he has represented Carlyle on the Boards of Egencia SA, Orthogon Systems Ltd., Financière CAMECA SAS and Wall Street Institute Education, SàRL.