Tony Ressler is a Co-Founder of Ares and Executive Chairman of Ares Management Corporation.
Additionally, he is Chairman of the Ares Executive Management Committee. Tony also serves as a member of the Investment Committees of certain funds managed by the Ares Private Equity Group and the Ares Real Estate Group and is a member of the Ares Diversity and Inclusion Council. Tony previously served on the Boards of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation and Air Lease Corporation. He was the Co-Founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the world's largest alternative investment managers.
Tony is the Chairman/CEO and Controlling Owner of ATL Investco Board, which owns the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Hawks Foundation, the College Park Skyhawks and the Hawks Talon GC and is active in the non-profit sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Co-Chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Board of Trustees. Tony is also one of the founding Board members of the Painted Turtle Camp, a southern California based organization (affiliated with Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Association) that provides camping opportunities for sick children and their families.
A graduate of Georgetown University, he received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and an M.B.A. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Elaine Wynn and Tony Ressler, co-chairs of LACMA’s board of trustees, said: “This building marks the culmination of a decade of transformation at LACMA, and we can’t wait to see how Peter Zumthor’s building will redefine the experience of art.”
Founded in 1997, Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:ARES) is one of the largest global alternative asset managers, with three complementary and market leading investment groups: credit, private equity and real estate. Ares has approximately $137 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2019.
The Atlanta Hawks, owned by ATL Investco, are an American professional basketball team who compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA. ATL Investco also owns the Atlanta Hawks Foundation, the College Park Skyhawks and the Hawks Talon GC.
Apollo Global Management is one of the world’s largest alternative investment managers, Apollo manages capital for hundreds of fund investors in dozens of countries, including some of the most sophisticated institutional allocators of capital.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western U.S., with a collection of nearly 140,000 objects illuminating 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Tony was named co-chair with Elaine Wynn in 2015.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center with over 2,000 physicians based in the Beverly Grove neighbourhood, LA.
The Painted Turtle is a camp where seriously ill children can reclaim the joys of childhood. A member of Paul Newman’s renowned SeriousFun Camps (formerly the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps),The Painted Turtle has served over 59,000 children and their families through its Summer & Family Weekend camps since it opened in 2004.
