Joshua Pearl is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hickory Lane Capital Management LP, a special situations and fundamentals-oriented asset manager, primarily in the tech / media / telecom (TMT), business services, and industrials sectors. Prior to founding Hickory Lane, for nine years he served as a Managing Director and Partner at Brahman Capital, an equity long/short manager focused on investing with best-in-class management teams. Prior to his investing career, he spent eight years as an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank, Moelis & Company, and Deutsche Bank focusing on high yield financings, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, activism, and board advisory. He is also the co-author of several books, including The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros and Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs.Josh Pearl has been profiled across numerous media outlets including CNBC, Institutional Investor, AlphaWeek, Newsmax, The UK Telegraph, The Charles Mizrahi Show, The Princeton Financier, and Harvard College Investment Magazine. He has corporate partnerships with Nasdaq, the leading U.S. exchange and technology provider for IPOs and new listings; global law firm Latham & Watkins, the #1 IPO adviser and #1 public M&A adviser; Datasite, the #1 provider in M&A lifecycle software, and Altrum, the global leader in custom deal toys and financial tombstones.He earned his B.S. in Business from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Joshua grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently resides in New York, New York with his family.