Executive Officers

Philip Mintz, 54
Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Mintz is a Senior Partner and leads Apollo’s real estate investing effort in the US and Asia. Mr. Mintz joined Apollo in 2015, following Apollo’s acquisition of Venator Real Estate Capital Partners, the firm which Mr. Mintz founded in 2013 and the manager of the $1 billion Trophy Property Development Fund TPD. Beginning in 2012, Mr. Mintz served as Chief Investment Officer of Winnington Capital in Hong Kong, the prior manager of TPD. Mr. Mintz currently serves on the board of directors of Shanghai Weixin Enterprise Company Limited and MaxCap Group Pty Ltd. Previously, he was the Chief Investment Officer of Asia Pacific Land, a Tokyo based real estate investment manager with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei. Mr. Mintz was previously a Partner at Warburg Pincus, where he initiated the Asian real estate investing efforts and deployed over $800 million in equity. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Real Estate Asia, where he led a team of 300 employees throughout the region and managed in excess of $4 billion in assets. Prior to GE, Mr. Mintz was a Director in Mergers and Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch in New York where he focused on real estate transactions and an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Mintz graduated with an M.B.A. from New York University, a J.D. from Fordham University and a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.

James Crossen, 48
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. Crossen is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of APSG I, APSG II, APSG III, Acropolis, Spartan III, and is Chief Financial Officer for Private Equity and Real Assets at Apollo, having joined Apollo in 2010. Prior to that time, Mr. Crossen was a Controller at Roundtable Investment Partners LLC. Prior thereto, Mr. Crossen was a Controller at Fortress Investment Group. Prior to that time, Mr. Crossen was a member of the Funds Management and Tax Group at JP Morgan Partners LLC. Mr. Crossen is a Certified Public Accountant in New York. Mr. Crossen served in the United States Marine Corps and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut.

Board of Directors

John Zito, 40
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Zito is a Senior Partner, the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Credit and the Co-Head of the Firm’s Global Corporate Credit business. He is the Senior Portfolio Manager of multiple fund products, including the Credit Strategies Fund, Apollo Accord Fund Series and certain Global Opportunistic Credit Managed Accounts. He joined Apollo in 2012 after five years as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Brencourt Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund, where he oversaw all of the firm’s credit investments including the Brencourt Credit Opportunities Fund. Prior to that, he was at Veritas Fund Group for five years where he co-managed the flagship capital structure, arbitrage focused, high-yield fund and the short only credit vehicle. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder and he graduated cum laude from Amherst College with an A.B. in Economics.

Amy Brandt, 49
Director Nominee

Ms. Brandt currently serves as the President of DocuTech LLC. From 2016 until 2017, Ms. Brandt served as the President of New Penn Financial LLC. Prior to joining New Penn Financial LLC, Ms. Brandt served as the Chief Operating Officer of Prospect Mortgage LLC from 2013 until 2016. Ms. Brandt has been the Chairman of the board of directors of SunToWater Technologies LLC since 2012 and she is currently a director nominee of Institute of International Education. Ms. Brandt received her B.A. in Political Science and Government from the University of Southern California and her J.D. from Arizona State University.

Kenneth Shea,63
Director Nominee

Mr. Shea is an Investment Partner with Pilot Growth Equity Partners, a venture capital firm focused on growth-stage technology companies. Previously, Mr. Shea served as a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Securities, LLC from 2014 to 2019. Prior to joining Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Mr. Shea served as President of Coastal Capital Management LLC from 2009 until 2014, a Managing Director for Icahn Capital LP from 2008 to 2009 and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co, where he was employed from 1996 to 2008. Mr. Shea currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sunlight Financial Holdings, Inc, a specialty finance company, where he is the Lead Independent director and a member of the Compensation Committee, and the Board of Directors of Viskase Companies, Inc., a food packaging and services company, where he is a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Shea also serves on the Advisory Board of WhyHotel, a privately-held, venture-backed real estate company. Previously, Mr. Shea served on the Board of Directors of Equity Commonwealth, a commercial office REIT, Hydra Industries, a special purpose acquisition company, and CVR Refining, a mid-continent refiner. Mr. Shea received his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and his B.A. in Economics from Boston College.

Patrick T. Sullivan, 61
Director Nominee

Mr. Sullivan served as an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) from 1993 until his retirement in 2020. At PwC, he primarily assisted private equity and corporate clients in their evaluation of potential transactions, and worked with portfolio companies on financings, and public and private exits. Since his retirement from PwC, Mr. Sullivan has provided consulting services to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Mr. Sullivan is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and California. Mr. Sullivan obtained his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.