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 BillsSince then Azelby has gone on to a career at JPMorgan Chase, which he joined after leaving the NFL 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.
He left Apollo in 2018 after differences with other managers over attracting investors and assembling a team for the real assets division.
In March 2019, Azelby was announced as the head of UBS's $100 billion real estate and private markets division.Raised in Dumont and a graduate of Bergen Catholic High School, Azelby has been a resident of nearby Cresskill.