Joshua Warren

Josh is a Senior Vice President and M&A Advisory Practice Leader of ABD Insurance and Financial Services. His responsibilities include operational leadership, client management, program design, and risk analysis for alternative asset managers and ABD clients facing a merger or acquisition. Prior to joining ABD, Josh spent 15 years at Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm concentrating exclusively on alternative asset managers.. Prior to Equity Risk Partners, he was an account executive specializing in the real estate industry at Mesirow Financial and a sales professional at a suburban Chicago insurance agency. In 2013 and 2015, Josh was named a Power Broker by Risk & Insurance Magazine in the Finance - Private Equity category. In 2013, Josh was included on the Risk & Insurance Magazine “Under 40” list. Josh was also recognized by Business Insurance Magazine by being named to their inaugural “40 Under 40” program. In 2014, Josh was recognized in the Service Provider category on the M&A Advisor “40 Under 40” list.

In addition to serving on Millikin's Board of Trustees, Josh serves as the Co-Chair of the Millikin University Football Alumni Advisory Board. He is the past Treasurer of the Oak Park/River Forest Young Life committee, Deacon at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest, and board member for the Canadian U.S. Business Council Chicago. He is also past co-chair of the Illinois Young Agents Committee, which was awarded the National Young Agents Committee of the Year Award in 2004.

Mr. Warren earned an undergraduate degree in secondary education from Millikin and is an MBA candidate at DePaul University.

Josh lives in Northfield, Illinois, with his wife, Suzanne, and sons Zach and Nick. Suzanne is a tenured professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at DePaul University.