Joe Azelby
No. 50
Position:Linebacker
Personal information
Born: (1962-03-05) March 5, 1962 (age 61)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Height:6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school:Bergen Catholic
(Oradell, New Jersey)
College:Harvard
NFL draft:1984 / Round: 10 / Pick: 263
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Joseph Kenneth Azelby (born March 5, 1962) is a former a professional American football player who played linebacker for the 1984 season for the Buffalo Bills[1] He was selected by the Bills in the tenth round of the 1984 NFL Draft.[2]

Since then Azelby has gone on to a career at JPMorgan Chase, which he joined after leaving the NFL[3] and where he served as global head of JP Morgan's real asset investment group, overseeing a team of 400 investment professionals investments worth in excess of $60 billion. In the spring of 2017, he joined Apollo Global Management in a similar role.[4] He left Apollo in 2018 after differences with other managers over attracting investors and assembling a team for the real assets division.[5] In March 2019, Azelby was announced as the head of UBS's $100 billion real estate and private markets division.[6]

Raised in Dumont and a graduate of Bergen Catholic High School, Azelby has been a resident of nearby Cresskill.[7]


References

  1. ^ "Joe Azelby Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
  2. ^ "1984 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
  3. ^ "Global Network of Investment Professionals - J.P. Morgan Institutional Asset Management". am.jpmorgan.com. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014.
  4. ^ Jacobius, Arlene (April 28, 2017). "Apollo hires former JPMAM executive to lead real assets unit". Pensions & Investments. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  5. ^ Basak, Sonali (May 25, 2018). "Apollo's Joe Azelby Is Leaving One Year After Joining Firm". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Stutts, Jordan (March 12, 2019). "UBS hires JPMorgan veteran Joe Azelby to head real assets". Infrastructure Investor. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  7. ^ Caldera, Pete. "Where are they now: Joe Azelby of Bergen Catholic" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Record (Bergen County), December 13, 2011. Accessed June 2, 2014. "These days Azelby, 49, regularly commutes to Manhattan from Cresskill, where he resides with his wife, Janet, and three daughters – though he must keep an up-to-date passport. 'I feel lucky that I've been able to see most of the world,' he said. 'And still live a mile from the house where I grew up [in Dumont].'"


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