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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 the Nominees for Election as Directors.” The following sets forth the biographical information for Ms. Mironova as of April 29, 2025.

Anastasia Mironova, 40, 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.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION**</div>

**Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Overview

We have no employees. We are managed by ACREFI Management, LLC, our Manager, pursuant to our Management Agreement. Our Manager is an indirect subsidiary of Apollo, a leading global alternative investment manager with a contrarian and value-oriented investment approach in private equity, credit and real assets. Apollo had total assets under management of approximately $751 billion as of December 31, 2024. Our Manager is led by an experienced team of senior real estate professionals who have significant experience in underwriting and structuring commercial real estate financing transactions. Through this structure, we benefit from Apollo’s global infrastructure and operating platform, through which we are able to source, evaluate and manage potential investments in our target assets.

Under our Management Agreement, we pay our Manager a management fee equal to 1.5% per annum of our stockholders’ equity (as defined in our Management Agreement), calculated and payable (in cash) quarterly in arrears. Our stockholders’ equity, for purposes of calculating the management fee, could be greater than or less than the amount of stockholders’ equity shown