Patrick Dalton

CEO, Frontwell Capital Partners

Patrick Dalton is a founder and the Chief Executive Officer. He is an accomplished investment management executive with over 30 years of investment experience in private credit markets and has held leadership positions at leading financial and asset-based lending institutions.

Prior to FrontWell, Mr. Dalton served as an Independent Senior Advisor to a number of private credit firms that were going through transitions and/or ownership changes. In this capacity, Mr. Dalton was Interim Chief Executive Officer of Callidus Capital Corporation, Senior Advisor to the Board of Alcentra Capital Corporation, and Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Street Finance Corporation and Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corporation. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Dalton was Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gordon Brothers Finance Company (GBFC).

Prior to his tenure at GBFC, Mr. Dalton was a Senior Partner of Apollo Global Management (AGM) and President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer at Apollo Investment Corporation (AINV) from 2004 to 2012. As a leader of Apollo Investment Management, his contributions were instrumental to the firm’s development and growth, with over $8.6 billion of investments across 165 portfolio companies since the firm’s inception in 2004 through 2011, including approximately $5 billion during Mr. Dalton’s tenure as CIO. In addition to managing AINV, Mr. Dalton co-founded Apollo’s CLO platform, managed one of Apollo’s first credit opportunity funds and held a key role in Apollo’s founding of Apollo’s European credit platform in 2006.

Mr. Dalton holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.Sc in Finance from Boston College. Mr. Dalton was the founding sponsor for the Private Equity Mentorship Program at Columbia Business School.