Jacqueline (Jackie) Reses is an American businesswoman, investor, author and philanthropist. She serves on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is the CEO of Post House Capital, a private investment firm.

Early life and education

Reses was born in

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to Ronnie and Stephen Reses. Her father owned Reses Pharmacy in nearby

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. In 1988, she graduated early from the

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in New Jersey, spending her senior year at George Washington University. She attended the

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where she earned a

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degree in economics with honors.

Career

Reses began her career at

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, working in the mergers and acquisitions department and later as an investor in the principal investments area between 1992 and 1999. Later she served as CEO for iBuilding, Inc., a real estate software business. After iBuilding's sale to Realeum Software in 2001, Reses joined

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, a private equity firm with headquarters in London, England, where she ran the firm's U.S. media group. At Apax, Reses served on the boards of

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Learning,

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, HIT Entertainment and NEP Broadcasting. In 2012, Reses joined

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as Executive Vice President of people and development, leading hiring and HR for the company. That same year, she was appointed to the board of directors of the Alibaba Group, where she helped lead Alibaba's IPO in September 2014. As Chief Development Officer at Yahoo!, Reses lead forty-one transactions between 2012 and 2014. In October 2015, Reses joined

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to head Square Capital, the company's start-up small-business lending program and was appointed as the Chief Human Resources Officer. In 2022, Reses co-authored the book Self-Made Boss with Lauren Weinberg.

Boards

Reses served on the Board of Trustees and Investment Committee for Peddie School and the Investment Committee for

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in New York. She has also served on the boards of Good+Foundation (formerly Baby Buggy),

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, and Springboard Enterprises, a non-profit networking platform for businesswomen. Reses has been on the board of the Wharton School since 2015. Reses has served on the Economic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco since 2015. In July 2020, she joined the board of Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, a

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. As of 2021, Reses served on the boards of

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, and entertainment company Endeavor.

Personal life

Reses lives with her husband, Matthew Apfel, and their three children in Woodside, California.

References

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