Leon D. Black
Founding Partner
Apollo Management, L.P.
New York, NY

In 1990, Leon Black founded Apollo Advisors, L.P. and Lion Advisors, L.P., to manage investment capital on behalf of a group of institutional investors, focusing on corporate restructuring, leveraged buyouts, and taking minority positions in growth-oriented companies. Since that time, Apollo and its affiliates have managed approximately $15 billion in such activities. Mr. Black also co-founded Apollo Real Estate Advisors, L.P., which since 1993 has invested in more than $5 billion of real estate-related assets.

From 1977 to 1990 Mr. Black worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, where he served as Managing Director, head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and co-head of the Corporate Finance Department.

Mr. Black is a director of Vail Resorts, Inc., Sequa Corporation, United Rentals, Inc., Allied Waste Industries, Inc., AMC Entertainment Inc., Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.

Mr. Black is a trustee of The Museum of Modern Art, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prep for Prep, The Jewish Museum, The Asia Society and The Vail Valley Foundation. He is also a trustee of Dartmouth College, where he has endowed a Shakespeare Studies chair and a Jewish Studies program.

Mr. Black graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973 with a major in Philosophy and History and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1975.