Partner and the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Credit
Apollo Global Management
Mr. Zito is a Partner and the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Credit at Apollo Global Management.
As Deputy CIO, Mr. Zito is responsible for overseeing the investment activities for the Firm’s over $370bn credit platform. Mr. Zito serves as a voting member on all of the Firm’s credit investment committees and is the Chair of the Large Credit Investment Committee, which approves all of Apollo’s largest investments for both third party and proprietary balance sheet capital. Mr. Zito joined Apollo in 2012 after five years as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Brencourt Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund, where he oversaw all the firm’s credit investments including the Brencourt Credit Opportunities Fund. Prior to that, Mr. Zito was at Veritas Fund Group for five years where he co-managed the flagship capital structure focused high yield fund and the short only credit vehicle. Mr. Zito is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder and he graduated cum laude from Amherst College with an A.B. in Economics.
