Bret Leas

Bret Leas is Partner and Head of Global Corporate Structured Credit & ABS at Apollo. He is the head of the compensation committee of Redding Ridge. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Cadma and Atlas. Prior to joining in 2009, Bret was Director in the Credit Structuring Group at Barclays Capital with primary responsibility for the loan structuring and advisory team. At Barclays Capital, he developed their market value and TRS CLO programs as well as their ABS CDO commercial paper program. 
Bret graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland with a BA in History and received his JD cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York and a member of the Board of Redding Ridge Asset Management.