Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 36

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 self-assessment•Publish annualSustainability Report |     | Fall•Engage withshareholders on topicssuch as governance,compensation, andsustainability•Review shareholderproposals, if any |     | Winter•Assess governancepractices and policies•Review committeecharters•Discuss shareholderfeedback from fallengagement meetingswith Board |

The Board, the Compensation Committee, and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee remain committed to an ongoing dialogue with our shareholders and view these discussions and feedback as essential inputs into the oversight, design, and implementation of our executive compensation programs and governance evolution. For additional information on our year-round shareholder engagement program, see “Stakeholder Engagement — Shareholder Engagement and Outreach.”

| CARLYLE | Proxy Statement2025 | 35 |

| Compensation Matters |

Compensation Philosophy Our compensation philosophy has three primary objectives—pay-for-performance, alignment, and balance—that help us deliver on our business goals and objectives for all our shareholders and other stakeholders:

| PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |                                                                                                   | ALIGNMENT                                                                                                        |     | BALANCE |
| Establish a clear relationshipbetween performanceand compensation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Align short-term and long-termincentives with our business,our shareholders and our fundinvestors | Provide competitiveincentive opportunities, withan appropriate balancebetween short-term andlong-term incentives |     |         |
| BUSINESS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                  |     |         |
| We seek to incentivize our named executive officers and other senior leaders to achieve our goals and objectives and toexecute and deliver strong financial results for all our shareholders and other stakeholders. We believe that a key toachieving our goals and objectives is an organized, unbiased approach to compensation that is transparent and agile inresponse to our business needs and an evolving economy and industry. |                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                  |     |         |

Pay-for-Performance As a global investment firm that manages assets across three business segments, we rely on our named executive officers and other senior leaders to set the strategy for our overall business and manage our complex global operations. More broadly, we depend on our employees’ ability to find, select, and execute investments, oversee and improve portfolio company operations to create value for our investors, find and develop relationships with fund investors and other sources of capital, and provide other services that are essential to our success by supporting our investment teams, investor relations group, and the corporate infrastructure of our firm. In order for our named executive