Steve McElwain is Partner, Real Assets at Apollo. He is based in Singapore where he serves as a member of the APAC Management Committee and the Head of Asia Real Estate, supporting a variety of credit and real asset initiatives across APAC. Steve joined Apollo in 2012 and was previously a Partner in the European Principal Finance business where he focused on investments in portfolios of non-performing and sub-performing credit and other distressed real asset investment strategies. Prior to joining in Apollo, Steve worked for Shinsei Bank where he served as General Manager for the International Principal Finance Division based in Tokyo, Japan and as Managing Director for Shinsei International's European distressed business based in Frankfurt. At Shinsei, he led the bank's international principal investments in distressed loan portfolios, opportunistic real estate equity and mezzanine debt across Europe and Asia. Previously, Steve was a senior manager with Ernst & Young Asia Pacific Financial Solutions, based in Tokyo and Taipei, advising buyers and sellers of non-performing loan portfolios across Asia and in Germany. He began his career as a consultant with Ernst & Young in their real estate practice in 1998. Steve earned a BS and an MBA from the University of Arizona.