W. Anthony Edson

Mr Edson is a co-founder of Fair Oaks Capital. Mr Edson was most recently a senior executive in the credit group of Apollo Global Management. Mr Edson was one of the three original founders of Stone Tower Capital which was acquired by Apollo in 2012. While at Stone Tower, Mr Edson was a member of the Management Committee which oversaw the growth and build out of the firm’s product lines. At the time of acquisition by Apollo, Stone Tower managed $17 billion in assets across multiple credit-focused funds, including a market leading CLO platform. Mr Edson was a member of the firm’s Corporate and Structured Investment Committees and was one of the key architects of Stone Tower’s rigorous investment process. Additionally, he initiated the firm’s marketing and business development group, which managed relationships with its global institutional investor base. Prior to Stone Tower, Mr Edson was an investment professional with Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, Inc. in their London and New York offices, where he focused on private equity transactions in the media, cable and consumer goods industries. Mr Edson began his career in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Department of Morgan Stanley & Co.