Barry Friedberg

Barry Friedberg is the President and Co-Founder of FriedbergMilstein, an asset management firm that has responsibility for investing more than $900 million in leveraged finance assets and currently is raising another $450 million. FriedbergMilstein was founded in 2003.

Prior to forming FriedbergMilstein, Mr. Friedberg was Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Committee at Merrill Lynch for more than 10 years. From 1985 through 1993, Mr. Friedberg was head of the Global Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch. In 1985, when Mr. Friedberg assumed these responsibilities, Merrill Lynch was ranked 6th or lower in the debt, equity, and M&A league tables. By the end of Mr. Friedberg’s period of leadership, Merrill Lynch was #1 in the league tables for all of these products. Mr. Friedberg’s responsibilities also included oversight of the investment activities of Merrill Lynch which included approximately $1 billion of private equity investments and approximately $1.5 billion of leveraged financing for middle market companies. He also, in 1985, initiated the first private placement effort at a Wall Street firm to place limited partnership interests on behalf of financial sponsor clients and was involved in assessing the management teams that Merrill Lynch represented in that marketplace.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Friedberg was head of the Merger & Acquisition Group of AG Becker which Merrill Lynch acquired in 1984.

Mr. Friedberg is Chairman of the Board of the New York City Ballet and he is a member of its investment committee. He is also a member of the investment committee of Boys & Girls Harbor. Mr. Friedberg is a graduate of Princeton University (BA, 1962).