Richard Stanton

Operating Partner, Private Equity at Apollo

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Aug 2026
Forge is a leading global B2B events and media company, connecting buyers and sellers across high-value industries through live events, trusted media brands, digital products and year-round communities. Powered by first-party data, technology and deep market expertise, Forge helps businesses discover opportunities, build the right relationships and stay engaged well beyond the event itself, all guided by a single purpose: Moving Markets. At the heart of Forge are our people. Our talented and experienced teams share a commitment to the industries and communities we serve. Together, we create experiences and connections that help our customers build relationships, discover opportunities and grow. If you’re ready to help shape what’s next, explore opportunities to join our team. Learn more at https://forgelive.com/
Board Member
Mar 2021
We are building a series of inspirational, immersive and visually stunning experiences and museums that will amaze audiences. We also partner with the top artists, creative producers and IP holders to help them scale their experiences. Our mission is to inform and inspire everyone to take action and to help solve the worlds most pressing issues. Whether experienced in person or via shared content on social media, we turn inspiration to action and make it easy for everyone to have an impact, creating a larger movement that will drive meaningful change.
early stageMuseums
Board Member
Mar 2020
MarketMuse uses AI to accelerate content planning, creation and optimization. The MarketMuse platform identifies content quality issues on your site and builds blueprints that show you exactly how to write to cover a topic comprehensively. Publishers, content creators and e-commerce managers use MarketMuse to realize 5X+ improvements in search performance.
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Feb 2019
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2026
Board Member
Aug 2026
Forge is a leading global B2B events and media company, connecting buyers and sellers across high-value industries through live events, trusted media brands, digital products and year-round communities. Powered by first-party data, technology and deep market expertise, Forge helps businesses discover opportunities, build the right relationships and stay engaged well beyond the event itself, all guided by a single purpose: Moving Markets. At the heart of Forge are our people. Our talented and experienced teams share a commitment to the industries and communities we serve. Together, we create experiences and connections that help our customers build relationships, discover opportunities and grow. If you’re ready to help shape what’s next, explore opportunities to join our team. Learn more at https://forgelive.com/
2023
Managing Director
Sep 2023
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Apollo or any Apollo-managed fund.
2021
Board Member
Mar 2021
We are building a series of inspirational, immersive and visually stunning experiences and museums that will amaze audiences. We also partner with the top artists, creative producers and IP holders to help them scale their experiences. Our mission is to inform and inspire everyone to take action and to help solve the worlds most pressing issues. Whether experienced in person or via shared content on social media, we turn inspiration to action and make it easy for everyone to have an impact, creating a larger movement that will drive meaningful change.
early stageMuseums
Managing Partner
Jan 2021
GSP Capital invests in ambitious teams building extraordinary businesses. We invest in areas where we see the convergence of behavioral changes, emerging technologies, and reshaped business models.
2020
Board Member
Mar 2020
MarketMuse uses AI to accelerate content planning, creation and optimization. The MarketMuse platform identifies content quality issues on your site and builds blueprints that show you exactly how to write to cover a topic comprehensively. Publishers, content creators and e-commerce managers use MarketMuse to realize 5X+ improvements in search performance.
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