Josh B, MBA - Principal Consultant

Tel Aviv, Israel and New York, NY

Josh has over fifteen years of experience in the financial services and healthcare sectors, and has functioned in a variety of leadership roles. Josh currently serves in a leadership position within a top 15 multinational pharmaceutical company where he oversees licensing of pre-clinical stage innovative products across a number of therapeutic areas.

Previously, he served as a founding executive of a VC-backed P2P financial company, where he was instrumental in strategy, business development, operations, and capital raising.

Prior to this, Josh was a portfolio manager for a major international asset management company in New York, where he oversaw $3 billion of institutional equity in the financial sector, which included banks, thrifts, fiduciaries, credit card, and diversified financial companies. During his tenure, his investments performed in the top quartile relative to his peers. In addition, he served as a research analyst (sell-side) at a Tier-1 investment bank, where he followed the large- cap commercial banking space and frequently interacted with company management, institutional investors and sales traders. Earlier in his career, Josh worked in the financial services group of a Tier-1 investment bank, where he executed M&A transactions and public and private financings for commercial banks, S&Ls, home equity lenders, mortgage REITs and real estate related companies. Additionally, Josh performed regulatory compliance at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with a specialization in credit risk and capital adequacy.

He earned an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and B.A. in Economics from Yeshiva University.