Roger Orf
Partner, Apollo Global Management
Mr. Orf is a partner and is head of Apollo’s real estate business in Europe. Mr. Orf oversees all property investments and fund raising activities on behalf of Apollo’s real estate funds throughout Europe. Prior to joining Apollo in 2010, Mr. Orf spent the majority of his career investing in the European real estate markets on behalf of Citigroup, Lone Star, for his own account and at Goldman Sachs. In his last four years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Orf headed the European Real Estate Department and was a member of the European Investment Banking Operating Committee. Mr. Orf is a Founder of E- Shelter GmbH, a German based data centre business. He is a member of the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business Global Advisory Board and the Visiting Committee for the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Orf holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University.
Mr. Orf is a former ULI Europe chairman, and was selected as a ULI Life Trustee in the Virtual Fall Meeting – an honour reserved for ULI’s most dedicated and respected members. He has also been a member of the European Retail and Entertainment Product Council since 2003.