CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Joshua S. Friedman
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer, Canyon Partners, LLC
Joshua S. Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC, a leading global alternative asset management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Canyon manages approximately $24 billion in assets, specializing in value-oriented investments for endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. Its investment strategies focus on distressed loans, distressed corporate bonds, convertible bonds, securitized assets, direct investments, arbitrage, and value equities. Canyon Partners' flagship fund, the Canyon Value Realization Fund, received Institutional Investor's "Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year" Award both in 2013 and 2014. Canyon also invests in real estate through Canyon Capital Realty Advisors and in emerging market securities through ICE Canyon LLC.
Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Harvard College (1976) (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Physics), Oxford University (1978) (M.A., honors, Politics and Economics, Marshall Scholar), Harvard Law School (1982) (J.D., magna cum laude) and Harvard Business School (1980) (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). Prior to forming Canyon, Mr. Friedman was Director of Capital Markets for High Yield and Private Placements at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to working at Drexel, he worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Goldman Sachs in New York.
In 2014, Mr. Friedman, along with his Co-Founder Mr. Julis, received Institutional Investor's "Lifetime Achievement" Award. He serves as a Trustee for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech); the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; UCLA Hospital Department of Neurosurgery; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Mr. Friedman serves on the Investment Committee for the Broad Foundation and chairs the Caltech and LACMA Investment Committees. Mr. Friedman is an active alumnus of Harvard University, and a member of the Committee on University Resources; the Harvard Law School Leadership Council; and the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors.
Mr. Friedman and his wife, Beth, live in Los Angeles and have three sons.
