Frederick J. Iseman is an American businessman and the founder of CI Capital Partners (formerly Caxton-Iseman Capital) private-equity firm.
He is the son of Joseph S. Iseman, a noted New York City attorney and partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He graduated from Yale College, with a B.A. in English Literature, and is a member of its Elizabethan Club.
He 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. Frederick Iseman currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CI Capital Partners LLC.
He is chairman of CI Capital Partners' portfolio companies including Ply Gem Industries, American Residential Services, Conney Safety Products, KIK Custom Products, and CoVant. He is also a Director of CI Capital Partners' portfolio companies including Transplace, Tech Air, Interactive Health Solutions, Galls, IntraPac, A-T Solutions, Foundation Building Materials, and Total Fleet Solutions. Iseman 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. Anteon closed its initial public offering in 2002.
He has published articles in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and The New Yorker.
He was a member of the cast of the 1987 movie "Someone to Love" starring Orson Welles.
He sits on the Boards of Directors of the International Rescue Committee a large foreign aid NGO. 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.