Joshua Fairbank

Mr. Fairbank has over 20 years of investment management and private equity experience; he is the President of Orchard Capital Management.
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In 2004, he co-founded and led the investment team at Orchard Ventures, a private equity fund. He is also the co-founder of several healthcare companies including Akebia (NASDAQ:AKBA) a spin-out from Procter & Gamble and Nymirum, a computational genetics firm where he serves as Executive Chairman.
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Josh began his career at Frank Russell, one of the original major hedge fund of funds and fund advisors. He later founded an investment office at Raymond James where he managed investments for large family investors. He received his BA from Connecticut College and his MBA from the University of Chicago, where he serves as Investor-in-Residence and is an Adjunct Professor.