The Carlyle Group; Samantha Lee/Business Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The Carlyle Group's lending division has been a major focus of the firm's CEO, Kewsong Lee. The credit team has nearly doubled its assets under management over the past four years. These are 14 people leading Carlyle's $53 billion lending division. One of Kewsong Lee's biggest priorities as CEO of The Carlyle Group has been to build out a lending division that offers new financial products for investors and serves as a true equal to its long-standing private-equity team, which has bought thousands of companies over its 34 years of existence, from the luxury fashion brand Golden Goose to the digital-content company Getty Images.