Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
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Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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 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. Carmencita N.M. Whonder, 48, has been one of our directors since June 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 the 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. 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 has served as a director of MidCap Financial Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: MFIC) since July 2022. Ms. Whonder also has served as a trustee at the Population Council since 2021, and on the boards of the Brooklyn Org and DC Jazz Festival since 2022 and 2010,