Marc Rowan

Marc J. Rowan is an American billionaire businessman and co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

  • Marc Rowan is the cofounder of Apollo Global Management, one of the biggest U.S. private equity firms, with over $300 billion in assets.
  • A UPenn alum, Rowan met Apollo cofounders Leon Black and Joshua Harris while working at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert’s M&A division.
  • The trio founded Apollo in 1990, after Drexel filed for bankruptcy following a cash shortage caused by turmoil in the junk bond market.
  • Rowan and his cofounders took Apollo Global public in 2011.

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