Gregory Cappelli

Gregory Cappelli is the CEO of Human Capital Development Solutions LLC. He previously served as the fourth CEO of Apollo Education Group (AEG) from 2009 to 2017. Apollo was a multi-billion dollar publicly traded global education and training company serving over a million university graduates.

In 2016, he successfully helped organize and execute a plan to take AEG private and establish new ownership under Apollo Global Management (AGM) and The Vistria Group. During his tenure, he founded and is the current Executive Chairman of Apollo Global — now known as Vanta Education Group — which operates colleges and universities serving hundreds of thousands of students globally. Since its founding, Apollo Global has made over a dozen acquisitions.

Before joining AEG in 2007, Cappelli spent over a decade as a managing director for Credit Suisse, where he served as a senior research analyst and founded the Credit Suisse Global Services Group. He authored over 10,000 pages of research and is responsible for raising capital and bringing public dozens of companies in the education, training, and business services sectors. Prior to Credit Suisse, Cappelli held the position of senior research analyst at ABN AMRO Securities. He received his BA in Economics from Indiana University where he also studied piano and performed regularly in various concerts. Cappelli received his MBA from the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University where he served on the board of trustees for nine years.

Currently, Cappelli serves on the National Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, where he’s also chairman of the Midwest region, and the Committee for Economic Development in Washington, DC. He serves on the board of trustees for University of Phoenix and BPP University Holdings UK. He previously served on the boards of University Latinoamericana, Mexico, Open Colleges Australia, Faculdade da Educacional da Lapa (FAEL), Brazil and Pharmacann, Inc. Cappelli is currently chairman of AAPC. He is also a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO council and the Milken Global Institute.