Joshua Friedman is co-founder, co-chairman and co-CEO of Canyon Partners, LLC, a global alternative asset management firm with approximately $20 billion in assets under management. Canyon also invests in real estate through Canyon Capital Realty Advisors and the Canyon Johnson Urban Fund, and in emerging market debt securities through ICE Canyon LLC. Prior to forming Canyon, Friedman was director of capital markets for high-yield and private placements at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to his role at Drexel, he worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs. Friedman is a director and trustee of a number of nonprofit and charitable organizations, and he received along with his wife the 2010 Visionary Award for their work with the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA Hospital. Friedman holds a B.A. in physics from Harvard College; an M.A. in politics and economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; a J.D. from Harvard Law School; and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

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