ABOUT THE EVENT
Scott Kleinman (W’94, C’94), Co-President of Apollo Global Management and Founder of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, joined Wharton undergraduate pupil Muhammad Vakil (W’26), President of the Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital and President of the Wharton Undergraduate Consulting Club, for a hearth chat in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
The occasion was offered by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, the Wharton Undergraduate Private Equity and Venture Capital Club, the Investment Management Club, and the Wharton Alumni Connections Council.
00:00 Opening Remarks
04:40 How Kleinman’s upbringing formed his profession in finance
05:55 Kleinman’s reflection on his time at Penn
07:35 How younger expertise develops within the finance trade
10:28 Mentorship tradition at Apollo
12:07 How Apollo has advanced over time
14:06 What differentiates Apollo from different corporations
15:43 What made Kleinman select the funding trade
22:45 The position of agentic AI within the finance trade
29:53 How ought to early-career professionals put together within the age of AI?
32:35 About the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
38:17 The query that everyone must be asking that no one ever does
(Recorded on April 23, 2026)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Scott Kleinman is Co-President of Apollo Asset Management, Inc., co-leading Apollo’s day-to-day operations together with all of Apollo’s revenue-generating companies and enterprise options throughout its built-in different funding platform. Mr. Kleinman joined Apollo six years after its inception in 1996, and was named Lead Partner for Private Equity in 2009 previous to being named Co-President in 2018. Mr. Kleinman serves on Apollo’s Executive Committee. Prior to becoming a member of Apollo, Mr. Kleinman was a member of the Investment Banking division at Smith Barney Inc. He serves on the board of administrators of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and Athora Holding Ltd.
In 2014, Mr. Kleinman based the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and the Board of Directors at the White Plains Hospital. Mr. Kleinman acquired a BA and BS from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business, respectively, graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Kleinman lives in Westchester County, New York together with his spouse Wendy and their three youngsters.
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