Frederick J. Iseman is an American businessman and the founder of CI Capital Partners (formerly Caxton-Iseman Capital) private-equity firm.
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Frederick Iseman founded Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC in 1993 in partnership with Caxton Associates. Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC announced on December 21, 2007 that it had completed its spin-off from Caxton Associates to form an independent private equity fund to be named CI Capital Partners LLC.[1] Frederick Iseman currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CI Capital Partners LLC.
Iseman is chairman of CI Capital Partners' portfolio companies including Transplace, Ply Gem Industries, American Residential Services, Conney Safety Products, KIK Custom Products, and CoVant. He 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 General Dynamics Corp. in June 2006.[2] Anteon closed its initial public offering in 2002.[3]
In addition, Iseman is a board member of the International Rescue Committee and the Academy for Educational Development, two large foreign aid NGOs. He also serves on the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, whose chairman is former Senator Sam Nunn. Iseman is a major supporter of Stanford University'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.[4] His support of the latter allowed Adam Jones to complete his book, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction.[5] Iseman is also a Harold Pratt Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on that Council’s Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.[6] He was the lead sponsor of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization's 2008 conference on nuclear weapons.
Iseman’s significant philanthropic interests include medical research at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center,[7] the Frederick Iseman Theater at Yale University,[8] the Wharton Institute, the Taub Institute for Brain Research, oncology, immunology, and other disciplines. As a member of the Board of Directors of the The Metropolitan Opera,[9] Iseman underwrote the production of Dimitri Shostakovich's The Nose for the 2009-2010 season.[10] He is also on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall[11] and the Board of Directors of the White Nights Foundation of America.[12]
Articles by Iseman have been published in The New York Times,[13] Harper's Magazine,[14] and The New Yorker.[15]
Iseman is a graduate of Yale College, with a B.A. in English Literature and is a member of its Elizabethan Club.
He resides in New York with his two children, a daughter and son. He is the son of Joseph S. Iseman, a noted New York attorney and partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.[16]
Mr. Iseman was a member of the cast of the 1987 movie "Someone to Love" starring Orson Welles.[17]
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