Christopher Edson leads origination at Apollo, overseeing a roughly $300B-per-year ecosystem across 16 platforms he helped build, and he pushes the firm to work across teams instead of in silos so borrowers get customized capital rather than a one-size-fits-all loan. He looks beyond typical sponsor lending to the much larger private credit market—things like mortgages, trade finance, transportation, and infrastructure—and often has Apollo buy and hold what it originates, which keeps the firm invested in long-term relationships with borrowers rather than one-off deals.