Joe Azelby

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Joe Azelby
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Position: Linebacker
Personal information
Born: (1962-03-05) March 5, 1962 (age 63)
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: 10th round, 263rd pick
Career history
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career NFL statistics
Fumble recoveries:1
Stats at Pro Football Reference

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 with the 263rd overall pick. [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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