Daniel A. D’Aniello, co-founder and chairman emeritus of The Carlyle Group, will deliver the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s 30th annual Durland Lecture, Tuesday, March 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

D’Aniello serves as a member of the executive committee and board of directors for The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest investments firms with $178 billion of assets. Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, D’Aniello was vice president for finance and development at Marriott Corp., where he was responsible for valuation of all major mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity offerings, and project financings. Before joining Marriott, he was a financial officer at PepsiCo and Trans World Airlines.

A 1968 magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, D’Aniello earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978. D’Aniello served in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1971; in 2016, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation presented him with a Lone Sailor Award, given to veterans who have drawn upon their sea service to become successful in their subsequent careers and lives, while exemplifying the Navy’s values of honor, courage and commitment.

D’Aniello holds several appointments, including: co-chairman of the American Enterprise Institute; co-chairman of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families; and founding trustee of the Lumen Institute. He is a life member of Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees, a member of the Chancellor’s Council and a member of the Corporate Advisory Council to Syracuse’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. In 2017, D’Aniello was awarded his alma mater’s Arents Award for Excellence in Business and Philanthropic Leadership.

Johnson’s Lewis H. Durland Memorial Lecture was established in 1983 by Roy H. Park and other supporters to bring prominent business speakers to Cornell. It honors Lew Durland ’30, treasurer emeritus of Cornell, who served as the university’s chief financial officer for more than 25 years. Previous lecturers include Peter H. Coors ’69, chairman of the board at Molson Coors Brewing Co., and Michael B. Polk ’82, CEO of Newell Rubbermaid.

Katelyn Godoy is a content specialist at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.