Ed is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and a member of the firms Board of Directors. He was instrumental in the founding of Carlyle and assisted in raising the firms initial capital. Prior to joining Carlyle in 1994, Mr. Mathias was a long-time member of the Management Committee and Board of Directors of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a major investment management organization. Mr. Mathias is currently a director of Brown Advisory, the Baltimore-based investment firm and a Trustee Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.