Portrait of Marc Rowan

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Marc Rowan

Net worth $7.7B

Private equity · United States

Born
Aug 19, 1962
Age
63
Source
Private equity
Residence
New York, New York
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Separated
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania; Master of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Marc Rowan is the CEO and a cofounder of Apollo Global Management, one of the biggest U.S. private equity firms, with $785 billion in assets.
  • 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.
  • Rowan replaced Black as Apollo's CEO in 2021, after the latter stepped amid controversy surrounding his longtime relationship with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Rowan owns several restaurants in the Hamptons, including Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Sag Harbor
  • Rowan was an investor in headphones firm Beats Electronics, which was acquired by Apple in a $3 billion deal in 2014.

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