Mitchell Julis 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. Julis served on the Board of Trustees at Princeton University and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In addition, he is a member of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science Leadership Council. Furthermore, he sits on the Board of Trustees at the Asia Society, the Board of Overseers at the Watson Institute at Brown University and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Advisory Council. Also noteworthy is Mr. Julis' active role in establishing the Harvard Law School Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. In 2014, Mr. Julis received Institutional Investor's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., honors). In 2011, Mr. Julis received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University of New York.