Wayne Wen-Tsui Tsou is a Managing Director and Head of the Asian Growth Capital Group, responsible for leading venture and growth capital investments in the Asia-Pacific region including Japan. He is based in Hong Kong.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Tsou spent seven years at Warburg Pincus, and was a Managing Director, head of technology investments for Asia including Japan and a member of Warburg Pincus' Global Information Technology Group and Global Communications Group. Prior to Warburg Pincus, Mr. Tsou worked at Morgan Stanley and Lazard Freres where he was involved in the privatization of major telecom operators in South East Asia and M&A activities of large US technology companies. In the early 1990s, Mr. Tsou worked at Bellcore (now "Telcordia"), the central R&D arm of the then seven U.S. Regional Bell Operating Companies, where he was one of the principal system architects for nationwide high-speed data communications services and standards.

Mr. Tsou holds a Juris Doctor from the Harvard Law School, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech"), and a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Tsou is on the Boards of Credit Orienwise, China Real Estate Network, ZCom and Huaya Microelectronics in China, Epivalley and Flexcom in Korea, and Newgen in India. He is a Governor of the China Venture Capital Association and a native of Shanghai, China.