Biography

Mr. Gross has been a director of Global Ship Lease since inception and was Chairman from September 2008 until the completion of the strategic combination with Poseidon Containers in 2018. Since 2010, Mr. Gross has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NASDAQ-listed Solar Senior Capital Ltd. and, since 2007, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NASDAQ-listed Solar Capital Ltd, continuing in those capacities following the merger of the two companies in 2022 as SLR Investment Corp. In his leadership of SLR, Mr. Gross has extensive specialty finance experience, in particular with the origination, structuring, and oversight of asset-backed debt. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Gross was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Investment Corporation ("AIC"), a publicly traded business development company, and was the managing partner of Apollo Investment Management, L.P. ("AIM"), the investment adviser to AIC. From 1990 to 2006, Mr. Gross was a senior partner of Apollo Management, a leading private equity firm which he co-founded in 1990.