Joshua Friedman

Josh Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC. Canyon is a global manager of credit investments for institutional investors, with offices in Dallas, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. Mr. Friedman 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 Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar) and Harvard Law School (J.D., Sears Prize, magna cum laude). 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, Mr. Friedman worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Goldman Sachs in New York.  

In 2014, Mr. Friedman, along with Co-Founder Mitch Julis, received Institutional Investor’s “Lifetime Achievement” Award. Mr. Friedman is a member of the George W. Bush Presidential Center Executive Advisory Council. Additionally, Mr. Friedman currently serves on the boards and/or investment committees of a number of endowments and foundations, including Harvard Management Company, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Broad Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), and the Hoover Institution. Mr. Friedman is on the Financial Sector Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, a founding member of the Economic Club of Dallas, and on the SMU Cox School of Business Executive Board. Mr. Friedman previously served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors for Harvard Business School and on the boards of the California Institute of Technology (Chairman of the investment Committee), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the UCLA Hospital Department of Neurosurgery, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the California Science Center, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Chairman of the investment committee) and served on the investment committee of the J. Paul Getty Trust. 

Mr. Friedman and his wife, Beth, live in Dallas, Texas and have three sons. Mr. and Mrs. Friedman co-endowed the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research at Harvard University and are 2019 recipients of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.