Marc Rowan
Career
Rowan joined the mergers and acquisitions department of Drexel Burnham Lambert where he worked in New York City and Los Angeles. The firm collapsed in 1990. In 1990, Rowan co-founded the asset management firm Apollo Global Management with former Drexel colleagues Leon Black and Josh Harris).
Marc Rowan
Marc Jeffrey Rowan (born 1962) is an American billionaire businessman who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apollo Global Management. He co-founded the firm in 1990, with Josh Harris) and Leon Black, and has been its CEO since 2021. As of 2026, Bloomberg estimated Rowan's net worth at $9.77 billion.
Early life and education
Rowan was born in 1962. He was raised on Long Island, New York. He moved with his family to Hollywood, Florida, where he attended high school, traveling between New York. His father worked in auto-leasing. His mother Barbara was a teacher and a trained concert pianist. He has one sister, Andrea. His grandfather, Emanuel Stein, was an economics professor at New York University. Many of his wider family worked as public interest lawyers. Rowan is Jewish.
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