Jackie Reses
Co-Founder, CEO & Chair
Jackie Reses is the Chair, CEO and co-founder of Lead Bank, a chartered banking-as-a-service platform for builders and innovators.
Previously, she was the Executive Chairman of Square Financial Services and Capital Lead and Head of the People Team at Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.). Prior, she was Chief Development Officer at Yahoo! and was a Partner at Apax Partners Worldwide.
Jackie also spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions and principal investment areas. Jackie was the Chairwoman of the Economic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She is also on the board of directors of Endeavor, Affirm, and Nubank, and the Board of Advisors of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group and Pershing Square Tontine Holdings.
Jackie received a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also co-authored Self Made Boss, a newly published book to help small businesses start, run and grow their business. She holds multiple patents in payments, credit and cryptocurrency.
