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Jim Zelter

Co-President, Apollo Global Management
Jim Zelter

Mr. Zelter is Co-President of Apollo Global Management, LLC, sharing responsibility for all of Apollo's revenue-generating and investing businesses. Mr. Zelter focuses on Apollo's credit and yield business, and has led Apollo's broad expansion of its credit platform. He serves on the Credit Investment Committee as Chief Investment Officer, and is a Director of Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: AINV). Before joining Apollo in 2006, Mr. Zelter was with Citigroup Inc. and its predecessor companies where he was Chief Investment Officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments, after leading the firm's global high-yield and leveraged-finance franchise. Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Zelter was a high-yield trader at Goldman Sachs. He is a board member of DUMAC, the investment management company that oversees the Duke University endowment and Duke Foundation. He earned an economics degree from Duke University.