He joins after 21 years at Apollo Global Management, where he played a key role in establishing and growing various credit and special situations businesses. He was most recently a Partner and Co-Head of Hybrid Value, a $14 billion capital solutions and structured equity business which he co-founded in 2017.
Prior to Hybrid Value, Mr. Ruberton was a Partner, business head, and portfolio manager across multiple strategies, including Illiquid Opportunistic Credit, European Credit, the ALME European CLO platform, Asia Credit, Energy Credit, and Apollo Investment Corporation, a listed BDC. Mr. Ruberton was the chair or member of numerous Apollo investment committees and was a member of the firm’s Partner Committee. He joined Apollo in 2004 after four years at Arsenal Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity fund. Before Arsenal he was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1997 to 2000.
Mr. Ruberton graduated cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Economics.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peddie School and of Montclair Kimberley Academy, where he chairs both schools’ Investment Committees and sits on their Executive Committees.