Josh Tanenbaum

Josh, Founding Partner of Clearstone, has been investing in early stage companies since 2014 upon exiting his social enterprise, LOCAL VIBES, where he first discovered the concept of scalable social DNA. The company was a tech-enhanced artist scouting, development, and cause marketing platform that supported quality emerging live bands. Most recently, Josh’s been an investment banker in Citi’s Financial Institutions Group. He previously was a member of Korn Ferry’s Global Asset Management & Alternatives Practice, where he participated in the founding of the Impact Investing practice and Transactions & Transformations (M&A) solution.

Josh is a Board Trustee of the Polonsky Foundation, a Steering Committee Leader for Nexus Global Summit’s Impact Investing Working Group, a Young World Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award and a member of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business’s Erb Institute External Advisory Board. He previously was a Cornell Environmental Finance & Impact Investing Fellow at Partners Group Impact Investing and judged the President Clinton-backed Hult Prize. He has received the FiNext Award as a “Leader of Excellence in Financial Services” and The Forward’s “Take the Lead Award for Transformational Impact Investing.” Josh holds an MBA from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management and a dual-BA from the University of Melbourne, Australia where he majored in Politics & International Studies and Sociology.