Our People

Stuart Rothstein has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since March 2012, and also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary from January 21, 2022 to April 4, 2022. From September 2009 through April 1, 2013, Mr. Rothstein also served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. He is also the Vice President of, and a member of the Investment Committee of, our Manager. Mr. Rothstein has been a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Apollo's real estate business since 2009. Mr. Rothstein is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Apollo’s real estate business as well as strategic planning and new business development. Mr. Rothstein has been one of the directors of Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc. (“ARIS”) since September 2021 and has served as the Chairman of the ARIS Board of Directors since June 2022. Since April 2022, he has also been a member of the Investment Committee of, and since June 2022, the Vice President of, ARIS Management, LLC, an affiliate of Apollo. 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 MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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 4, 2022. Prior to joining Apollo, she 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 her tenure in Deloitte & Touche LLP in the United States and Deloitte CIS in Russia), 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 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 MidCap FinCo Holdings, Limited, MidCap FinCo Intermediate Holdings, Limited, MidCap FinCo Designated Activity Company, MC Feeder, Limited, and MFIC GP, LLC (affiliates of Apollo), and he is a member of the audit committee, risk management committee and conflicts committee of MidCap FinCo Designated Activity Company. 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., and Castle Holdco 4, Ltd., an Apollo affiliate. Mr. Salvati received a B.S. in microbiology and a M.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Mr. Salvati qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the guidelines of the SEC.

Mark 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. 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 BSE degree, with high honors, in chemical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Biderman qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the guidelines of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

Pamela 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 diversity, equity and inclusion 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, Pamela 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 Threadneedle Investments (the mutual fund board of Ameriprise) 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. She is a member of the Women’s Forum of New York. 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.

Brenna Haysom has been one of our directors since February 2020. Ms. Haysom is the Chief Executive Officer of Rally Labs, LLC, a consumer pharmaceutical company. Prior to founding Rally Labs in 2010, Ms. Haysom worked in the Private Equity Group at Apollo Global Management, Inc., 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 REIT with office, retail, industrial, and residential properties across North America for which she also serves as a member of the Compensation, Governance, and Nominating 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 AB with honors in Social Studies from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ms. Haysom qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" under the guidelines of the SEC.

Robert Kasdin has been one of our directors since April 2014. From July 2015 to July 2022, Mr. Kasdin served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and also as Chief Financial Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2018. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Medicine, he served as Senior Executive Vice President of Columbia University from September 2002 to June 2015. Prior to joining Columbia University, he 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 served on the Board of Directors of the Harbor Funds since January 2014 and is also 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.

Katherine Newman is Partner and Senior Tax Counsel at Apollo, specializing in tax matters with respect to Apollo’s private equity 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 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.

Scott Prince is one of ARI’s Directors. Since 2015, Mr. Prince has been a Co-Founder of GPS Investment Partners and Vice Chairman of Chiron Investment Management. He is also currently a Partner of Maxim Capital Group, a real estate investment and lending platform where he is a Member of the Board and Chairman of the Risk Committee. In 2012, Mr. Prince co-founded Lake Success Rentals, a single family rental businesses created in partnership with Tricon Capital Group that has purchased distressed single family residences. Mr. Prince was formerly Co-Managing Partner of Skybridge Capital. Prior to Skybridge, Mr. Prince was a Partner at Eton Park Capital Management, heading global trading and the fund’s derivatives business. Mr. Prince was co-head of Equities Trading and Global Equity Derivatives at Goldman Sachs, named a Goldman Sachs Partner in 1998, and served on the firm’s Finance Committee, Equity Division’s Risk and Operating Committees. He was a Director of the International Securities Exchange. He is currently an Executive Board Member of the Wharton School, and is a Board Member of the Hope and Heroes Pediatric Cancer Foundation. He received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Stuart Rothstein has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since March 2012, and also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary from January 21, 2022 to April 4, 2022. From September 2009 through April 1, 2013, Mr. Rothstein also served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. He is also the Vice President of, and a member of the Investment Committee of, our Manager. Mr. Rothstein has been a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Apollo's real estate business since 2009. Mr. Rothstein is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Apollo’s real estate business as well as strategic planning and new business development. Mr. Rothstein has been one of the directors of Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc. (“ARIS”) since September 2021 and has served as the Chairman of the ARIS Board of Directors since June 2022. Since April 2022, he has also been a member of the Investment Committee of, and since June 2022, the Vice President of, ARIS Management, LLC, an affiliate of Apollo. 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 MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Carmencita N. M. Whonder has been a director since July 2021. Ms. Whonder serves as Policy Director at the lobbying and law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP (“Brownstein”). At Brownstein, Ms. Whonder provides 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 currently serves on the Board of Directors at Direct ChassisLink, Inc. (March 2020 to present) as well as the Board of Directors of the DC Jazz Festival (2010 to present). Ms. Whonder has a B.A. from Howard University, a diploma from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and a Masters in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University.