Carlyle Group has bolstered its fledgling Ireland team with the hire of two former executives from Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus, a move that follows the recent closing of the firm’s first fund dedicated to deals in the country.

The Nasdaq-listed firm said on Thursday that it has hired Peter Garvey and Jonathan Cosgrave, both Irish nationals, as directors of the Carlyle Cardinal Ireland Fund, a new €292 million fund that closed earlier this month.