Thomas B. Mayrhofer is a Principal focused on Corporate Development for The Carlyle Group. Mr. Mayrhofer has worked on a number of corporate transactions for The Carlyle Group including the sale of a portion of the Firm to the Mubadala Development Corporation in 2007. Prior to his Corporate Development role Mr. Mayrhofer worked extensively on operational aspects associated with Carlyle’s acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom, the incumbent local exchange carrier for the State of Hawaii. He is based in Washington, DC.

Additionally Mr. Mayrhofer has served as the Chief Financial Officer for Carlyle’s Asia focused investment funds, Carlyle Asia Partners and Carlyle Asia Venture Partners. In this capacity, Mr. Mayrhofer was responsible for fund formation, tax structuring, financial reporting, foreign currency management and investor relations. Mr. Mayrhofer worked closely with Carlyle's investment teams based in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and India and also worked with several Carlyle investments in Asia including QuEST, Taiwan Broadband Communications and served on the Board of Directors of Platypus Technology, Inc.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Mayrhofer worked at Arthur Andersen LLP in the Real Estate and Hospitality Group. Mr. Mayrhofer contributed to several significant real estate transactions, including the conversion of Host Marriott Corporation into a Real Estate Investment Trust and Host Marriott's acquisition of more than $1 billion of hotel properties from The Blackstone Group.

Mr. Mayrhofer graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.B.A. in accounting in 1995. He is a CPA and a CFA charterholder.