Joshua Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO of Canyon Partners, LLC. Founded in 1990, Canyon Partners specializes in value-oriented and event-driven investments. Mr. Friedman is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Management Company. Additionally, Mr. Friedman serves on the boards and/or the investment committees of a number of endowments and foundations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the Broad Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2014, Mr. Friedman received Institutional Investor's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Physics), Oxford University (M.A., honors, Politics and Economics, Marshall Scholar), Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar).