Catherine Chen

Catherine Chen is a Managing Director in Apollo’s Real Assets – Commercial Real Estate Lending group where she is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of commercial real estate debt investments. Since joining Apollo in 2013, Ms. Chen has led investments on a wide range of credit opportunities ranging from first mortgages, B-notes, mezzanine and preferred equity and covering all asset types. Prior to joining Apollo in 2013, Ms. Chen was a Vice President in the Commercial Real Estate Lending group at Morgan Stanley where she was involved in all facets of commercial mortgage origination, securitization, underwriting and syndication. During her tenure at Morgan Stanley, Ms. Chen also worked in Institutional Sales and Trading management, assisting in the management of the global equities and fixed-income divisions. Ms. Chen graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Economics from the University of California - Berkeley. Ms. Chen is a career advisor at the Columbia Business School Career Management Center and an active member of CRE Finance Council, ULI – Urban Development and Mixed-Use Council (Green), and WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate.