Josh Neuman has over 25 years of investment experience as a CIO and a private equity professional. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and a concentration in Finance, Josh began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette (“DLJ”). At DLJ, Josh was in the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group, where he was an investment professional and was involved in the acquisition of hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate acquisitions across different property types. While at DLJ, Josh was also a member of the leveraged finance group, where he worked as an investment banker and was involved in common stock, high yield bond, bank debt, and restructuring transactions for leveraged companies in a variety of industries.

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In 2001 Josh earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating with High Distinction as a George F. Baker Scholar, and went on to join Bear Stearns Merchant Banking. Over his 10+ years with the firm (which later became Irving Place Capital), Josh diligently structured, negotiated, documented, and asset-managed a wide variety of investments across industries and developed extensive industry expertise in the consumer, industrial, and financial sectors. Josh worked with portfolio company management teams to execute business plans and served on the board of directors and board committees for various portfolio companies. After his time at Irving Place Capital, Josh was hired by The Straus Group, a single-family office, to serve as its Chief Investment Officer. There, he directed and oversaw all investment-related activities, including cash management, manager selection in both public and private investment strategies, direct investments in public securities, private corporate investments, and real estate debt and equity investments.

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In 2014, Josh transitioned to a role as Chief Investment Officer of Ironshore Insurance, where he was a founding investor in 2006. There, he managed the Company’s approximately $5 billion investment portfolio by directing asset allocation, investment due diligence, increasing and optimizing investment income and diversification, management of portfolio risk, strengthening the firm’s focus on tax structuring and fee impacts on net investment returns, and advising on numerous special projects related to capital markets, M&A, alternative capital vehicles, to meet the various goals and requirements of regulators, rating agencies, counterparties, and shareholders.