Frederick J. Iseman is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of CI Capital Partners (formerly Caxton-Iseman Capital)

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firm.

Early life and education

Iseman is the son of Joseph S. Iseman, a noted

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attorney and partner at

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. He earned a B.A. in English literature from

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and is a member of its

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Career

Iseman founded Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC in partnership with

Caxton Associates Caxton Associates is a global macro hedge fund founded by Bruce Kovner in 1983 in New York City. The firm's headquarters are located in London, and also has offices in New York, Sydney, Australia and Princeton, New Jersey. Caxton Associates ident ...

. Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC announced on December 21, 2007, that it had completed its spin-off from Caxton Associates to form an independent

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fund to be named CI Capital Partners LLC. Frederick Iseman currently serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of CI Capital Partners LLC. Iseman is a former chairman of CI Capital Partners' portfolio companies, including Ply Gem Industries,

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, Conney Safety Products, KIK Custom Products, and CoVant, Transplace, Tech Air, Interactive Health Solutions, Galls, IntraPac, A-T Solutions, Foundation Building Materials, and Total Fleet Solutions. Iseman is also a member of the advisory board of investment firm STAR Capital in London. Iseman was the chairman of Anteon International Corp. until Anteon's sale to

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Corp. in June 2006.

Philanthropy

Iseman sat on the boards of directors of the

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and was a member of the advisory board of the

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, whose chairman is former senator

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. He currently serves on the international council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the

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. His philanthropic interests include medical research at

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, the Frederick Iseman Theater at

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, the Wharton Institute, the Taub Institute for Brain Research,

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, and other disciplines. In 2014, he provided Yale with a $3 million endowment for creation of the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry faculty position. As a member of the board of directors of

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, Iseman underwrote the production of

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's The Nose for the 2009–2010 season. He was also on the board of trustees of

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and was chairman of the Mariinsky Foundation of America. Iseman is also a Harold Pratt Fellow of the

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and served on that Council's Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy. He was the lead sponsor of the

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, or YCSG, is a research center at Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 2001 in order to "enrich the debate about globalization on campus and to promote the flow of ideas be ...

's 2008 conference on nuclear weapons. Iseman is a major supporter of

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's Preventive Defense Project, a part of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Yale Center for Genocide Studies. His support of the latter allowed Adam Jones to complete his book, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction.

References

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