Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc is a commercial real estate finance company that is focused primarily on originating, investing in, acquiring and managing senior performing commercial real estate mortgage loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, commercial real estate corporate debt and loans and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the U.S. We are externally managed by ACREFI Management, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading global alternative asset manager with a contrarian and value-oriented investment approach in private equity and credit-oriented capital markets. We are led by an experienced team of senior real estate professionals, including Joseph F. Azrack, who serves as our Chief Executive Officer, Scott Weiner, who serves as our Chief Investment Officer, and Stuart A. Rothstein, who serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Messrs. Azrack, Weiner and Rothstein are supported by a team of senior executives who have significant experience in commercial property ownership and finance. We will also draw upon the extensive transactional, financial, managerial and investment skills of Apollo Global Management’s private equity, credit-oriented capital markets and real estate investment professionals. We believe our relationship with Apollo Global Management provides us with significant advantages in sourcing, evaluating, underwriting and managing investments. Our goal is to be a pre-eminent commercial real estate finance company that provides creative senior financing solutions to real estate owners while at the same time providing attractive risk adjusted returns to our stockholders over the long term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. We distinguish ourselves from other providers of capital through our seamless execution, first class management, and creative and experienced investment professionals. Our primary purpose is to create a diversified portfolio of performing commercial real estate mortgage loans and CMBS assets that will be held to maturity and which we expect will provide stable attractive cash flow yields for our stockholders.