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
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 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 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, 46, 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,

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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, 61, has been one of our directors since November 2013. Mr. Prince is also a Founding Member of GPS Investment