Victor Gustaf Gao is Portfolio Chief Commercial Officer, Americas and Managing Director at the Carlyle Group, where he advises the firm’s flagship funds in investment sourcing, asset selection, and high-stakes transformation at portfolio companies.

Prior to Carlyle, Victor was Member of the Executive Committee and Chief Marketing Officer at Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW), a Fortune 100 global engineering and supply chain company. At Arrow, Victor led the company’s digital transformation across a $38 billion revenue footprint, redefined its global brand and go-to-market, and served as strategy and P&L leader for its data, publishing, and platform businesses.

Previously, Victor was a founding Board Member of MIT's Machine Learning Applications Initiative at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). He has held senior P&L and operating roles at Microsoft, the Yell Group, and Yahoo! in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Victor holds an MBA from the University of Southern California, a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University, and has completed the executive leadership program at the University of Oxford.

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