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Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is privately-owned by a consortium of investors including The Vistria Group, LLC and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management , LLC.
Gregory W. Cappelli (born c. 1968 [1]) is an American business executive who specializes in national education policy. He is the CEO of Apollo Education Group, a Fortune 1000 company [2] [3] and the parent company of the University of Phoenix, as well as chairman of Apollo Global, [4] a subsidiary company that invests money in educational ...
John Glen Sperling (January 9, 1921 – August 22, 2014) was an American billionaire businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States [1] The fortune he amassed was based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which became part of the publicly traded Apollo Group.
University of Phoenix’s students — who are mostly working adults, often with dependents — number about 64,000 undergraduates and have a graduation rate of 27%. U of I has around 7,000 ...
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In October 2017, West was purchased by Apollo Global Management, a New York-based private equity firm, for $5.2 billion. [1] On August 31, 2018 West Corporation laid off 148 employees between their Middleton, WI and Green Bay, WI location after losing a major contract. [11] On June 25, 2019 West Corporation rebranded itself to Intrado. [12]
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Inc. (1995–2017) (as Yahoo!) Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational technology company that focuses on media and online business. It is the second and current incarnation of the company, after Verizon Communications acquired the core assets of its predecessor and merged them with AOL in 2017. [6] [7] The resulting subsidiary entity ...