David Rubenstein
American businessman (born 1949) · United States · Founders
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Something wrong?He built one of Washington's largest private equity machines, then spent decades buying into the capital's cultural infrastructure - chairing the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery, the Council on Foreign Relations - before adding a baseball team to the portfolio.
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David Mark Rubenstein was born August 11, 1949, and co-founded the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity firm that made him a billionaire. He accumulated an estimated $4.1 billion by May 2026, according to Forbes, and became principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles. The chairmanships followed: Duke's board of trustees, the Smithsonian, Brookings, the Kennedy Center from 2010 to 2025. In 2022 he took the chair at the University of Chicago's board of trustees. When president Donald Trump replaced him at the Kennedy Center in 2025, Rubenstein still held the top seats at the National Gallery of Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington.
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