Carling O’Brien


Carling O’Brien co-founded Emerald Lake Capital Management, a private equity firm with over $1 billion AUM. Ms. O’Brien served as one of two partners in Emerald Lake’s management company. At Emerald Lake, Carling was involved in sourcing, evaluating, executing, and closing investments, recruiting executive advisors and portfolio executives, hiring investment professionals and support staff, capital raising, and portfolio management (including serving on the Boards of Directors of City Ventures and Inno-Pak). Carling was involved in developing the investment opportunities, fundraising, and deploying Emerald Lake Grizzly, PD, Packaging, and Edison (aka Electrical Source) Acquisition Funds. In addition, Ms. O'Brien developed and led sourcing for Emerald Lake MCG (nka Mission Critical Group).