UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 15, 2012

 

 

Apollo Investment Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Maryland		814-00646		52-2439556
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

9 West 57th Street,

New York, NY 10019

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(212) 515-3450

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

None

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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Item 5.02.

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On February 15, 2012, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Mark Harris as the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and Treasurer of the Company. Mr. Harris’ appointment is effective as of the time he joins the Company on April 2, 2012.

ABOUT MARK HARRIS

Mr. Harris, age 41, was most recently based in Asia, where he was responsible for operational activities as well as the Asset Management Group for Avenue Capital Group’s (“Avenue”) Avenue Asia Strategy, which works with investee companies post-acquisition. Prior to joining Avenue in 2006, Mr. Harris was the Corporate Financial Controller of Hutchison Telecommunications International, a leading global provider of telecommunications services. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Finance and Financial Shared Services for VSource, a U.S. publicly-listed company in the Asia Pacific region. Previously, Mr. Harris worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, London, and Singapore, where he was a Manager in their Global Capital Markets Group, where he listed numerous foreign companies in the United States, which involved working with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Harris graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit
99.1		Press Release, dated February 15, 2012.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: February 15, 2012

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit
99.1		Press Release, dated February 15, 2012.