Tony Ressler

Ares Mgmt; credit-led alternative allocator

Tony Ressler is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Ares Management Corporation, which he helped build into a multi-hundred-billion-dollar platform spanning credit, private equity, and real assets. He previously co-founded Apollo Global Management before establishing Ares in 1997. Ressler's signature contribution is scaling a credit-led alternatives model that prioritises downside protection across market cycles.