Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-096971
Chunk: 53

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 53
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 also issued RSUs in connection with the commencement of her employment in 2023. The portion of the variable compensation paid as RSUs increases as the employee’s total compensation increases. The vesting, delayed liquidity and restrictive covenants (including forfeiture upon competition) features of these awards and, for certain executives (including all named executive officers), the application of our executive share ownership guidelines to these awards, contribute to our professionals’ focus on long-term performance while enhancing our retention of these professionals. Certain RSUs granted to our named executive officers and professionals vest based on both the executives’ continued service and the achievement of performance fee hurdles, within prescribed periods, sufficient to cover the associated equity-based compensation expense. We believe these performance measures help to promote the interests of our stockholders and investors in the funds we manage by making the vesting of these RSUs contingent on the realization and distribution of profits on such funds. By requiring our named executive officers to be subject to non-competition, non-solicitation,confidentiality and other limitations on behavior described below under “Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control,” we further reinforce our commitment to fiduciary protection of our stockholders and the investors in the funds we manage. Significant Personal Investment.Our named executive officers and other professionals generally make significant personal investments in the funds we manage (as more fully described under “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence”), either directly or indirectly, and our named executive officers and other professionals who receive rights to performance fees (excluding rights in respect of non-drawdown-stylefunds and certain pooled performance fee vehicles) from the funds we manage are generally required to invest their own capital in the funds on which they work, in amounts that are proportionate to the size of their participation in performance fees. We believe that these investments help to ensure that our professionals have capital at risk and reinforce the linkage between the success of the funds we manage, the success of the Company and the amounts earned by our professionals. Our eligible professionals are generally permitted to invest in the funds we manage free of management fees and, in certain instances, performance fees. These opportunities further align our employees with the investors in the funds we manage and our stockholders, encourage our professionals to work across the integrated asset management platform and bolster links among our various businesses. 41

Discouragement of Excessive Risk-Taking.Semler Brossy conducts an annual compensation-related risk review for the Compensation Committee. For 2024, Semler Brossy reaffirmed that our compensation practices and