Harvard Adds Hedge Fund CEO, Ex-Fed Governor to Endowment Board

Harvard University added Joshua Friedman, co-founder of hedge fund Canyon Partners LLC, and Jeremy Stein, a former Federal Reserve Board governor, to the board overseeing its $36.4 billion endowment.

Friedman is a Harvard alum who founded Los Angeles-based Canyon Partners in 1990. He previously worked in the mergers and acquisitions department at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as well as at Drexel Burnham Lambert, according to his company’s website. He has undergraduate, law and business school degrees from Harvard.