Marc Rowan

Marc Rowan, born in 1962, is the CEO of Apollo Global Management, a finance company. He has an estimated net worth of ~$7.9 billion. Wikidata

Business & SEC Activity

SEC records identify Rowan as an insider connected to Apollo Global Management, Athene Holding, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, and Charter Communications. His recent filings include Form 4 reports, which disclose changes in an insider's ownership of company securities, as well as Schedule 13D filings, which report significant beneficial ownership; the listed filings include Form 4 reports in 2023, 2024, and 2025. SEC EDGAR

Philanthropy

Three foundations bearing the Rowan name reported combined assets of $21,565,048 and grants paid of $1,460,971 for tax year 2023. The Chicago-based Rowan Foundation reported $19,340,627 in assets and $1,307,246 in grants paid, while the Rowan Family Foundation in Colorado reported $1,810,223 in assets and $95,652 in grants paid. ProPublica 990

Political Activity

The most recent 100 federal contribution records on file show at least $4,906,900 in donations, covering a sample from November 20, 2025, to July 23, 2026. That sampled total included $4,067,500 categorized as Unknown, $786,900 to Republican recipients, and $52,500 to Democratic recipients. The largest listed recipients in the sample were United Democracy Project ($1,500,000), CLF ($1,000,000), SLF PAC ($1,000,000), NRCC ($310,100), and NRSC ($310,100). FEC

These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.

In the News

A Times of India article published August 8, 2026, reported that Rowan worked as a valet and in other service jobs as a teenager before becoming Apollo's cofounder and CEO. NewsAPI