Steven McElwain is Partner, Real Assets at Apollo. Prior to joining in 2012, Steven was Managing Director for Shinsei International's European distressed business based in Frankfurt. Previously, he served as General Manager for the International Principal Finance Division of Shinsei Bank in Tokyo, where he led Shinsei's international principal investments in distressed loan portfolios, opportunistic real estate equity and mezzanine debt across Europe and Asia. Before that, Steven 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.

Steven earned a BS and an MBA from the University of Arizona.