Apollo Strategic Growth Capital

Mr. Leas serves as a Managing Director and member of the Board of Directors of Redding Ridge. He is also a Senior Partner at Apollo and currently serves as Head of Global Structured Finance and ABS and Co-Head of Asset Backed Finance. Prior to joining Apollo in 2009, Mr. Leas was a Director at Barclays Capital with primary responsibility for the loan structuring and advisory team. Prior to Barclays Capital, he was an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, primarily focusing on asset backed securities, CDOs and credit derivatives. Mr. Leas is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York. Mr. Leas graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in History and received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Patel is a member of the Credit Investment Committees for Redding Ridge UK. He joined Apollo in 2008 and concurrently serves as a portfolio manager in the Corporate Credit Group based in London. Mr. Patel has 19 years of experience in the financial markets and serves as lead Portfolio Manager on Apollo and Redding Ridge CLOs. Mr. Patel has been Apollo’s senior trader in London since he joined and has played an integral role in sourcing assets for all of Apollo’s European CLOs since their inception in 2013. He was central in rebuilding the European Credit platform across distressed and liquid products. Prior to working at Apollo, Mr. Patel was a trader at Morgan Stanley in London from 2006 to 2008, trading high yield bonds, loans, credit default swaps (CDS) and loan CDS (LCDS). In 1999 he joined the Barclays graduate program and worked on the market risk desk in New York, and from 2001 to 2006, traded high yield bonds and CDS for the European Credit team at Barclays Capital in London. He graduated from Kings College London (University of London) with a BSc (Hons). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst holder (CFA) from the CFA Institute.

Mr. Huntington serves as Head of Structuring and Advisory at Redding Ridge. Prior joining Redding Ridge at its inception in 2016, Mr. Huntington was a Principal in Apollo's Corporate Structured Credit Group. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Huntington was a Director in the CLO Structuring & Origination Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Since joining Apollo, he has transacted on over $150 billion of CLOs, ABS, corporate debt and other asset-backed financings across 180+ transactions. Mr. Huntington graduated from The University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and received his M.B.A. from The College of William & Mary, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma.

Ms. Ravani joined Redding Ridge in 2022 as a Managing Director.  Prior to joining Redding Ridge, Ms. Ravani was a Director in the CLO Primary group at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. While at Citigroup Ms. Ravani was responsible for origination, structuring and syndication of US CLOs and was involved in over 200 transactions, representing over $100bn volume over a 15-year timeframe. Ms. Ravani graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with dual B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Economics.

Mr. D’Angelo is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of the Management Company.  Prior to joining Redding Ridge, Mr. D’Angelo was a Senior Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Pretium Credit Management LLC in New York where he managed a portfolio of high yield and distressed bank loans for six CLOs, one Total Return Fund and one public Mutual Fund, representing over $2.5 billion in total assets.  Prior to joining Pretium, Mr. D'Angelo was the Senior Portfolio Manager for the High Yield Loan Group at Aladdin. He was a key man and primary portfolio manager on all of Aladdin's CLO transactions and total return loan funds, which totaled over $3.5 billion in assets. Prior to joining Aladdin, Mr. D'Angelo was a Director of Investments at Harbinger Capital Partners, focusing on distressed credits across several industries. Before Harbinger, he was a Vice President, Senior Credit Analyst at ING Capital Advisors, LLC. Mr. D'Angelo also worked in the leverage banking divisions at CIBC World Markets, Royal Bank of Canada and Credit Lyonnais. Previously, he spent five years at The Chase Manhattan Bank in the Real Estate and Emerging Markets restructuring groups. Mr. D'Angelo received his MBA from New York University, Leonard Stern School of Business and BS from SUNY Albany.

Mr. Frangione is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of the Management Company.  Prior to joining Redding Ridge, Mr. Frangione was a Senior Trader and Managing Director at Alcentra LLC in New York where he was responsible for all loan trading for CLOs, SMAs, Multi-Asset Funds and public Mutual Funds representing over $10 billion in assets.  Prior to Alcentra, Mr. Frangione worked in the Asset Recovery Group at BNY Mellon as a credit analyst and trader helping to wind down an over $2.0 billion portfolio of non-strategic distressed and performing term loans and revolvers. At BNY Mellon, Mr. Frangione also worked in its Capital Markets group as a credit analyst as part of a team that started a loan platform with over $1.5 billion in assets invested in two CLOs, an SMA and an internal proprietary fund. Mr. Frangione received his MBA from Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business and BA in Economics from Bucknell University.

Mr. Farr is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director. Prior to joining Redding Ridge, Mr. Farr was a founding partner and Senior Portfolio Manager for Gulf Stream Asset Management in Charlotte, N.C. where he managed $2.8 billion in syndicated bank loan assets across seven CLOs. Prior to joining Gulf Stream, Mr. Farr was a senior research analyst at Steele Creek Investment Management, an asset management firm with $3.0 billion of assets. From 2005 to 2011, Mr. Farr was a research analyst with Gulf Stream covering technology, business services and distressed credit portfolios. Mr. Farr worked as a distressed portfolio manager for Patriarch Partners from 2003 until 2005. Mr. Farr began his career with Wachovia spending ten years working in the bank’s credit underwriting and capital markets divisions. Mr. Farr received his A.B. in Economics from Davidson College.

Mr. Caruso is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director. Prior to joining Redding Ridge, Mr. Caruso was a founding partner and Head of Trading at Gulf Stream Asset Management in Charlotte, N.C. where he was responsible for all trading activity across seven CLO transactions and $2.8bn of AUM. Prior to Gulf Stream, Mr. Caruso was a Fixed Income Trader at TIAA where he was responsible for trading leveraged loans and bonds across multiple mandates which totaled more than $20B in assets across a diverse set of portfolios that included insurance accounts, mutual funds, and CLOs. Prior to TIAA, Mr. Caruso was a Senior Financial Analyst at Baker & Taylor. Mr. Caruso began his career at Gulf Stream Asset Management where he served as a Research Associate. Mr. Caruso graduated cum laude from Radford University with a B.B.A. in Finance and Economics.

Mr. Leach is a member of the Credit Investment Committees for Redding Ridge UK. He joined Apollo in 2015 and concurrently serves as a portfolio manager in the Corporate Credit Group based in London. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Leach spent eight years at Cheyne Capital, initially working on the Total Return Credit Fund, and latterly as Portfolio Manager of the Cheyne Long Short Credit Fund, which he managed since late 2011. Mr. Leach graduated from the London School of Economics with a first class honours degree in Economics and Government.

Mr. Patel serves as a Deputy Portfolio Manager for the European CLOs. Prior to Redding Ridge, Mr. Patel spent ten years at Oaktree Capital Management, most recently as Senior Vice President in the Performing Credit team. Prior to Oaktree, Mr. Patel worked at BNP Paribas in the Leveraged Finance division and Lloyds Banking Group in the Restructuring Group. Mr. Patel graduated from the University of Bristol with a first class honors degree in Economics and Finance. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. Shearman joined Redding Ridge in 2018 and is currently a Managing Director, Mr. Shearman worked from 2013 to 2018 as an Associate at Dechert LLP, where he primarily focused on structured finance transactions, including broadly syndicated and middle market CLOs, credit warehouse facilities and risk-retention related financing vehicles. He has been involved in the structuring and execution of over $36 billion of CLOs, CLO Refinancings, CLO Resets, Aviation and Corporate ABS across more than 65 transactions. Mr. Shearman graduated, with distinction, from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with a B.B.A. (concentration in finance) and received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he was named a Harvey F. Wachsman Endowed Scholar graduating with a certificate in business law, also with distinction.

Mr. Paniwozik is Partner and Global Head of Structured Credit Investing at Apollo. Prior to joining in 2015, Mr. Paniwozik was a Managing Director and the Senior Product Strategist for U.S. Corporate Credit at Napier Park Global Capital. He began his career in credit structuring at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Paniwozik received a BA in Economics, with honors, from the University of Chicago.

Ms. Hester is the Chief Legal Officer of the Collateral Manager. Ms. Kristin Hester is Managing Director & Senior Counsel, Permanent Capital Vehicles at Apollo. Ms. Hester is also General Counsel for Apollo Debt Solutions BDC, Apollo Investment Corporation, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc. and Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc., and Chief Legal Officer for Apollo Diversified Credit Fund. Prior to joining Apollo in 2015, Ms. Hester was associated with the law firms of Dechert LLP from 2009-2015 and Clifford Chance US LLP from 2006-2009. In each case, she primarily advised U.S. registered investment companies, their investment advisers and boards of directors on various matters under the Investment Company Act of 1940.  Ms. Hester received her JD from Duke University School of Law and graduated cum laude from Bucknell University with a BS in Business Administration.

Ms. Sundel is the Chief Compliance Officer of Redding Ridge. Ms. Sundel joined Apollo in 2021 as a Managing Director, Senior Compliance Officer based in New York. She most recently worked at  Sculptor Capital Management (f/k/a Och-Ziff), where she served as Regulatory Counsel & Senior Compliance Officer. Prior to Sculptor, Ms. Sundel was a Securities Compliance Examiner at the SEC, focusing on their Investment Adviser Program. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Litigation Associate for both Bernstein Litowitz Berger &  Grossmann and Labaton Sucharow. Ms. Sundel earned her law degree from New York Law School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Franklin University Switzerland.

Mr. Marra serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Redding Ridge. Prior to joining Redding Ridge in 2024, Mr. Marra was a Partner, CFO, and Chief Compliance Officer at 26North Partners LP. Prior to that, Mr. Marra spent 13 years at Apollo Global Management, where he held key leadership roles, including Managing Director in Credit Finance and CFO/Treasurer of the Apollo Senior Floating Rate and Apollo Tactical Income Funds (2014-2021). His earlier experience includes positions at Lehman Brothers Inc., Stone Tower Debt Advisors, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Marra holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Syracuse University.