Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Financial Sector Advisory Council.

Friedman is co-founder, co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of Canyon Partners, LLC. Prior to forming Canyon, Friedman was director of capital markets for high-yield and private placements at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to Drexel, Friedman worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs in New York.

In 2014, Friedman, along with Canyon co-founder Mitch Julis, received Institutional Investor’s lifetime achievement award. Friedman is a member of the George W. Bush Presidential Center's executive advisory council, and he serves on boards and investment committees for a number of endowments and foundations, including Harvard Management Co. and the Harvard Committee on University Resources. Friedman previously served on investment committees for the California Institute of Technology and the J. Paul Getty Trust. He also served on the Harvard Business School's dean's advisory board and boards of other nonprofit and educational institutions.

Friedman received a BA in physics from Harvard College, an MA in politics and economics from Oxford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School.