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Place of birth: Princeton, NJ
Education: JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law with Honors from Duke University; MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he was a Fuqua Scholar (graduated in the top 10% of his class); AB with University Distinction and Honors in Quantitative Economics and Political Science from Stanford University. Career history: Prior to joining Spark Networks, Josh practiced law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He began his career with a judicial clerkship in Wilmington, Delaware on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
My career has been a journey both literally and figuratively. I started out turning the wheels of justice as a judicial clerk in Delaware, where I realized that there are two sides to every story and in order to arrive at some semblance of the truth you must listen well, learn to balance competing interests, think critically, and question incessantly. I later spent several years working for top-tier global law firms in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington where I traveled the world handling complex M&A, securities, and financing transactions for clients in industries ranging from investment banking, commercial banking, and private equity to accounting, shipping, software, and, of course, Internet services. From my law firm experience I gained an appreciation for hard work, a belief in thorough preparation, and an unyielding dedication to holding the client’s interests above everything else. My career journey has taught me to be honest, ethical, and respectful towards everyone I meet whether they are across the negotiation table from me or at my side. You never know when your paths will cross again.
Outside of work you’ll probably find me still working. But I always make sure to devote as much time as I can to my family. While I enjoy helping people find their soul mates on Spark’s websites, I never forget how lucky I am to already have found mine my beautiful wife, a fellow lawyer and the most challenging adversary I have ever debated. In the end, my favorite place to be is on my living room floor with my children constructing sprawling train tracks, building giant skyscrapers out of blocks, or watching Winnie the Pooh again, and again, and again." | 