John Suydam Mr. Suydam joined Apollo in 2006 and is our General Counsel. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Suydam was a partner at O`Melveny & Myers LLP, where he served as Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Officer and Co-Head of the Corporate Division. Previously, Mr. Suydam was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the law firm O`Sullivan, LLP, which specializes in representing private equity investors. Mr. Suydam serves on the boards of the Legal Action Center, Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc., and New York University School of Law. Mr.
Suydam received his J.D. from New York University and a B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Albany. Renahan, Blackstone`s chief executive, succeeds Marisa Beeney as chief compliance officer for its private credit and secured credit funds, Blackstone said. M. Beeney, Blackstone`s Senior Managing Director for nearly 16 years, will continue to serve as Chief Legal Officer and General Secretary of the funds. A free and fully functional 30-day trial of Apollo is available for download and trial to give users the opportunity to thoroughly assess whether Apollo is the right solution for their needs before purchasing. With the availability of this trial version of Apollo and due to the fact that the Apollo software is not copy protected, all Apollo sales are final. Glatt, a former employee of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Schulte Roth & Zabel who spent the past decade as a leading lawyer for Apollo`s publicly traded arm, is promoted to a new partner position in Apollo`s U.S.
financial institution group. Apollo co-founder Leon Black retired as a senior executive at the company last year after Dechert published a report that found he paid $158 million to financier and disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for tax advice. + Lynn Swann, non-voting observer on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, is an independent director and a member of the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors. Mr. Swann has been a director of Athene Holding Ltd. since September 2020. Mr. Swann is President of Swann, Inc., a marketing and consulting firm he founded in 1976. From 2016 to 2019, Mr. Swann served as Athletic Director of the University of Southern California, where he was responsible for the overall administration of the university`s 21 Division I women`s and men`s athletic programs.
M. Swann currently serves on the boards of Evoqua Water Technologies and American Homes 4 Rent and has previously served on the boards of a number of public, private and non-profit entities, including Fluor Corporation, Caesar`s Entertainment Corp., Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, H.J. Heinz Company and the Professional Golfers` Association (PGA) of America. In addition to his extensive leadership and board experience, Mr. Swann played nine seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001. Previously, he worked for nearly 30 years as a presenter, journalist and analyst for the American Broadcast Company (ABC-TV) and was Chairman of the National Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Swann president of the Presidential Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, where he served from 2002 to 2005. M. Swann holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California.
Richard Emerson is an independent director and a member of the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors. Mr. Emerson was an independent director of the Board of Directors of Apollo Asset Management, Inc. from March 2021 to December 2021. Mr. Emerson has spent his entire career in investment banking and corporate finance. He is currently President of Pendral Capital, where he invests and advises technology clients on strategic transactions. From 2004 to 2008, he was Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners Inc., a public investment banking consulting firm, where he built and led the San Francisco office. Before joining Evercore, Mr. Emerson served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation, reporting directly to the CEO and as part of the leadership team responsible for all acquisitions, investments, strategic partnerships and corporate strategies. Mr. Emerson joined Microsoft from investment banking Lazard Ltd., where he built and led the West Coast office as Senior Managing Director, advising clients on industry-specific mergers, acquisitions and related financial transactions.
Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. Emerson held leadership positions at The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Emerson holds a bachelor`s and master`s degree in economics and a Juris doctor from Stanford University and an MBA from Dartmouth College. Quiboloy was indicted by a grand jury of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana, California, with conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking with violence, fraud and coercion and child sex trafficking; trafficking for sexual purposes with violence, fraud and coercion; conspiracy; and the massive smuggling of cash, and on November 10, 2021, a federal arrest warrant was issued against him.