Kewsong Lee is the founder and CEO of BellTower Partners.

He excels in cultivating strong partnerships and making decisions through a strategic and multi-generational lens and possesses more than three decades of strategic and organizational experience gained from years of leading a diverse array of large, complex global organizations. Prior to BellTower, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Carlyle Group and was on the Board of Directors from 2018 to 2022, having initially joined as Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Private Equity in 2013. Before Carlyle, Mr. Lee was at Warburg Pincus for 21 years, where he was a Partner and member of the Executive Management Group. Mr. Lee is currently the Chair of Lincoln Center Theater, Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Vice Chair for the Partnership for New York City. He also is a strategic advisor for FCLT Global.

Mr. Lee earned his AB in applied mathematics in economics at Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.