David J. Lam is a Vice President focused on U.S. growth capital investments and small leveraged buyouts in the telecommunications, media, technology and business services sectors. He is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Since joining Carlyle in 2005, Mr. Lam has been actively involved with the firm's investments in Actelis, Air2Web, eScreen, Ingenio (acquired by AT&T) and Panasas. He serves on the Board of Directors of Actelis Networks and as an Observer on the Board of Directors of Air2Web, eScreen and Panasas. Mr. Lam served as an Observer on the Board of Directors of Ingenio before its acquisition.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Lam served as Director of Business Development at Panasas, a Carlyle portfolio company that develops distributed network storage systems. Previously, he held marketing and business development positions at CIENA Corp., ONI Systems, Cisco Systems and Proxim, and worked in the M&A group at Robertson Stephens & Company.Mr. Lam began his career as an Executive Fellow in the administration of California Governor Pete Wilson.

Mr. Lam received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Merit Scholar and recipient of the Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award. He earned his M.A. in sociology and B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University. Mr. Lam was elected in 2008 to the Board of Directors of the Asia America Multi-Technology Association (AAMA).