Our People

Stuart A. Rothstein has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since March 2012. From September 2009 through April 2013, Mr. Rothstein served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, and from January 2022 to April 2022, he also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary. Mr. Rothstein has been a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer-Real Estate of Apollo since 2009 and the Chief Operating Officer-Asset Backed Finance of Apollo since April 2023. In those roles, Mr. Rothstein is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the businesses as well as strategic planning development and implementation of growth and product strategies and new business development. Mr. Rothstein has been a director of Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc. (“ARIS”), a non-traded REIT managed by Apollo, since September 2021 and has served as the chair of the ARIS board of directors since June 2022. Since February 2024, Mr. Rothstein has been the chair of the board of directors of Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company LLC. Since December 2024, Mr. Rothstein has served as president of Apollo Diversified Real Estate Fund (“ADREF”) and as chairman and trustee of ADREF’s board of trustees. Prior to joining Apollo in 2009, Mr. Rothstein was a Co-Managing Partner of Four Corners Properties, a privately held real estate investment company. Previously, he was employed by KKR Financial Advisors, LLC, RBC Capital Markets, Related Capital Company and Spieker Properties, Inc. Mr. Rothstein graduated from the Schreyer Honors College at the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Accounting and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Rothstein was selected to serve on our board of directors because of the strategic leadership and business judgment he has demonstrated in his role as our President and Chief Executive Officer, and previously as our Chief Financial Officer, and his extensive managerial and executive experience.

Scott Weiner is the Chief Investment Officer of ARI’s manager and is a Partner at Apollo, where he heads the global commercial real estate debt business and oversees Apollo’s performing, commercial real estate loan origination, acquisition and asset management activities, which include first mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity investments and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) across ARI, the retirement services business and managed accounts. Prior to joining Apollo in 2009, Scott was Managing Director at Barclays Capital, where he led the group responsible for large mortgage loans and structured finance transactions. Previously, he was Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the commercial real estate finance area where he specialized in structured first mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity investments. Mr. Weiner graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in International Studies.

Anastasia Mironova has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since April 2022. Since March 2025, Ms. Mironova has served as the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of ARIS, and previously, as ARIS’ Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary from March 2024 to March 2025. Prior to joining Apollo, Ms. Mironova served from May 2021 to April 2022 as a partner focused on public REITs and debt funds at BDO USA, LLP (“BDO”). Prior to BDO, Ms. Mironova spent 15 years until April 2021 at Deloitte (including Deloitte & Touche LLP and Deloitte CIS), where her main area of focus was public mortgage REITs. Ms. Mironova graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a Masters in Finance and Credit. She is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Michael E. Salvati has been one of our directors since September 2009. Since December 2000, Mr. Salvati has been President at Oakridge Consulting, Inc., which provides interim management, management consulting and corporate advisory services to companies ranging in size from start-ups to multinational corporations. From February 2004 to May 2004, Mr. Salvati served as Chief Financial Officer of AMI Semiconductor, Inc. From September 1998 to February 2000, Mr. Salvati was Executive Vice President—Chief Operating Officer of National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP), an Apollo-affiliated venture focusing on the consolidation of small financial services firms that service high net worth individuals. From June 1996 to June 1998, he was Chief Financial Officer of Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., where he oversaw the completion of nearly 50 acquisitions over a period of 18 months. Mr. Salvati was a partner at KPMG LLP from 1990 to 1996. Mr. Salvati is a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive) and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Illinois CPA Society. He also serves as a member of the boards of directors of MFIC GP, LLC and MidCap Finco LLC (affiliates of Apollo) since May 2022 and September 2024, respectively. Mr. Salvati’s previous board memberships include Global Power Equipment Group, Inc. (OTC: GLPW), Things Remembered, Inc., Lazydays, Inc., NCH Nu World Marketing, Ltd., Coho Energy, Inc. (OTC: COHIQ), Prime Succession, Inc., Castle Holdco 4, Ltd. (an Apollo affiliate), and MidCap FinCo Holdings, Limited, MidCap FinCo Intermediate Holdings, Limited, MidCap FinCo Designated Activity Company, MC Feeder, Limited (affiliates of Apollo). Mr. Salvati received a B.S. in microbiology and a M.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Mr. Salvati was selected to serve on our board of directors due to his strong background in public accounting and auditing.

Mark C. Biderman has been one of our directors since November 2010. Since April 2021, Mr. Biderman has been a member of the board of directors and chair of the Audit Committee of The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers LLC. Mr. Biderman served as a member of the board of directors of Atlas Energy Group, LLC from February 2015 to May 2020, and as a member of the board of directors of Corse Energy Corp. from October 2023 to October 2024. Since January 2009, Mr. Biderman has been a consultant focused on the financial services sector. Mr. Biderman served as Vice Chairman of National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP), a benefits, insurance and wealth management services firm, from September 2008 through December 2008. From November 1999 until September 2008, he served as National Financial Partners Corp.’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 1987 to 1999, Mr. Biderman served as Managing Director and Head of the Financial Institutions Group at CIBC World Markets, or CIBC, an investment banking firm, and its predecessor, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. Prior to investment banking, he was an equity research analyst covering the commercial banking industry. Mr. Biderman chaired the Due Diligence Committee at CIBC and served on the Commitment and Credit Committees. Mr. Biderman was a member of the Disciplinary Review Committee of the CFA Institute from September 2016 to August 2022. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Congregation Rodeph Sholom. Mr. Biderman is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Biderman received a B.S.E. degree, with high honors, in chemical engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Biderman was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his business acumen and valuable operational experience.

Pamela G. Carlton has been one of our directors since July 2021. Ms. Carlton is the President of Springboard Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, LLC. After 22 years as an investment banker on Wall Street, Ms. Carlton launched Springboard in 2003, a human capital strategy and consulting firm. Prior to founding Springboard, Ms. Carlton retired as a Managing Director and Associate Director of U.S. Equity Research at JPMorgan Chase in 2003, having also served as Director of U.S. Equity Research for Chase Asset Management from 1996 to 1999. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Ms. Carlton was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley and served as Morgan Stanley’s Co-Director of U.S. and Latin America Equity Research from 1991 to 1996. She began her career as a corporate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Ms. Carlton has served on the board of directors of Evercore (NYSE: EVR) since 2019 and the board of directors of Columbia Funds (a mutual fund board of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial) since 2007, where she has served as Chair since January 2023. Ms. Carlton also has served on the board of directors of DR Bank since 2017 and the Board of Trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital since 1996. Ms. Carlton earned a B.A. from Williams College, graduating Magna Cum Laude, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and was elected as President of the Williams College Phi Beta Kappa Society. She also earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management. Ms. Carlton was selected to serve on our board of directors because of her significant professional experience, investment banking and capital markets experience as well as her expertise in human capital, talent and leadership matters.

Brenna Haysom has been one of our directors since February 2020. Ms. Haysom is the Chief Executive Officer of Rally Labs, LLC, a consumer healthcare company. Prior to founding Rally Labs in 2010, Ms. Haysom worked in the Private Equity Group at Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “Apollo”), where she focused on both equity and credit investing across a range of industries that included financial services, transportation, chemicals, telecom, and media. She started her career at Lazard Ltd (formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co.) in New York where she worked in both the Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring groups. Ms. Haysom serves on the board of directors of H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: HR.UN), a diversified real estate investment trust (“REIT”) with office, retail, industrial and residential properties across North America for which she also serves as the chair of the Compensation, Governance and Nominating Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Haysom also serves on the board of directors of Venerable Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries Corporate Solutions Life Reinsurance Company and Venerable Insurance and Annuity Company, both insurance companies that are focused on the consolidation of variable annuity blocks. Ms. Haysom is a member of the Venerable Holdings, Inc. Audit Committee. She chairs the Venerable Insurance and Annuity Company Compensation Committee and is a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Haysom has an A.B. with honors in Social Studies from Harvard College, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Ms. Haysom has also completed executive education coursework in cybersecurity. Ms. Haysom was selected to serve on our board of directors because of her significant professional and management experience and strong background in finance.

Robert A. Kasdin has been one of our directors since April 2014. Since August 2025, Mr. Kasdin has served as Senior Executive Vice President of Columbia University. Mr. Kasdin previously served in this role from September 2002 to June 2015. From July 2015 to July 2022, Mr. Kasdin served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine and from 2018 to July 2022 also as Chief Financial Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Mr. Kasdin also served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2002. Before his service at the University of Michigan, he was the Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 1993 to 1997, and, from 1988 to 1992, served as Vice President and General Counsel for Princeton University Investment Company. He began his career as a corporate attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Mr. Kasdin has been a director of Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company LLC since September 2025. Mr. Kasdin has also served as a director of the Harbor Funds since January 2014, a trustee of Barnard College since July 2023, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From February 2008 to March 2014, Mr. Kasdin served as a member of the board of directors of Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation (NYSE: NOR). Mr. Kasdin earned his A.B. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Kasdin was selected to serve on our board of directors based on his legal experience as well as his leadership, financial and management experience with large, complex institutions, including construction projects and major real estate development on behalf of those institutions, which brings an important perspective to our strategic planning.

Katherine G. Newman has been one of our directors since June 2020. Ms. Newman is Partner and Global Head of Tax Finance at Apollo, specializing in tax matters with respect to Apollo’s investment funds their investors and their investments worldwide. She also advises the firm on its public holding structure. Prior to joining Apollo in 2010, Ms. Newman practiced law at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Ms. Newman serves on the board of directors for Women’s Justice Initiative, a non-profit focused on education, access to legal services and gender-based violence prevention, and on the board of directors for Chances for Children, a non-profit which provides clinical intervention services for families with young children to strengthen family bonds. Ms. Newman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in Social Studies, and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Newman was selected to serve on our board of directors based on her significant legal and tax experience in the asset management industry as well as her experience counseling business leaders across Apollo on broad organizational changes.

Scott S. Prince has been one of our directors since November 2013. Mr. Prince is also a Founding Member of GPS Investment Partners, LLC and an Executive Chairman of Merchant Investment Management. Additionally, Mr. Prince is a Partner of Maxim Capital Group, a real estate investment and lending platform where he is a Member of the Board. Mr. Prince was the Vice Chairman of Chiron Investment Management, LLC from 2015 until 2021 and Co-Managing Partner of Skybridge Capital from 2007 until 2011. Prior to Skybridge, Mr. Prince was a Partner at Eton Park Capital Management from launch in 2004 until 2007, where he headed global trading and the fund’s derivatives business. Mr. Prince was Co-Head of Equities Trading and Global Equity Derivatives at Goldman Sachs through 2004, where he was named a Partner in 1998, and served on the firm’s Finance Committee and the Equity Division’s Risk and Operating Committees. He serves as a Board Member of the Hope and Heroes Pediatric Cancer Foundation and a Director of the Miami Community-Police Relations Foundation. Mr. Prince received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Mr. Prince was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his significant finance and capital markets expertise.

Stuart A. Rothstein has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since March 2012. From September 2009 through April 2013, Mr. Rothstein served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, and from January 2022 to April 2022, he also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary. Mr. Rothstein has been a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer-Real Estate of Apollo since 2009 and the Chief Operating Officer-Asset Backed Finance of Apollo since April 2023. In those roles, Mr. Rothstein is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the businesses as well as strategic planning development and implementation of growth and product strategies and new business development. Mr. Rothstein has been a director of Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc. (“ARIS”), a non-traded REIT managed by Apollo, since September 2021 and has served as the chair of the ARIS board of directors since June 2022. Since February 2024, Mr. Rothstein has been the chair of the board of directors of Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company LLC. Since December 2024, Mr. Rothstein has served as president of Apollo Diversified Real Estate Fund (“ADREF”) and as chairman and trustee of ADREF’s board of trustees. Prior to joining Apollo in 2009, Mr. Rothstein was a Co-Managing Partner of Four Corners Properties, a privately held real estate investment company. Previously, he was employed by KKR Financial Advisors, LLC, RBC Capital Markets, Related Capital Company and Spieker Properties, Inc. Mr. Rothstein graduated from the Schreyer Honors College at the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Accounting and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Rothstein was selected to serve on our board of directors because of the strategic leadership and business judgment he has demonstrated in his role as our President and Chief Executive Officer, and previously as our Chief Financial Officer, and his extensive managerial and executive experience.

Ms. Whonder became a Director of the Company in August 2022. Ms. Whonder served as Policy Director at the lobbying and law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP (“Brownstein”). At Brownstein, Ms. Whonder provided strategic public policy advice to clients primarily in the financial services and housing sectors before the U.S. Congress and executive branch agencies. In February 2013, she founded OF WHONDER, a size inclusive luxury womenswear brand, and is chief executive officer of Whonder Apparel Group, LLC. Prior to joining Brownstein in November 2008, Ms. Whonder served as the staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development and as the principal advisor on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to United States Senator Charles E. Schumer. During the 109th Congress, from March 2004 to December 2006, she held the position of Minority Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Economic Policy. From January 2001 to July 2003, Ms. Whonder has also worked as a Leadership Education Counselor for Gates Millennium Scholars Program/UNCF, an initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Whonder is board member of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc. (NYSE: ARI). Ms. Whonder is Trustee at the Population Council (2021 to present) and serves on the boards of the Howard University College of Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors (2024 to present), Brooklyn Org (2022 to present) and the DC Jazz Festival (2010 to present). She has been recognized as a MiSK Global Forum Delegate, a Milken Institute Young Leader, an Aspen Institute Socrates Scholar, a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member and served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Taskforce on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy. Ms. Whonder served as director of Direct ChassisLink, Inc. (March 2020 to 2022). Ms. Whonder has a BA from Howard University, a diploma from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and an MA in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Ms. Whonder was nominated to serve as a director on our Board of Directors because of her significant professional experience and expertise in public policy in the financial services and housing sector.