ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., November 6, 2025 — CNBC is excited to announce the addition of two distinguished leaders to the CNBC Changemakers Advisory Board for its annual CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business list. Jacqueline Reses, Co-Founder & CEO of Lead Bank and 2024 CNBC Changemakers honoree, and Patience Ball, Impact Chairperson at Apollo, will join the board to help identify and celebrate trailblazing women driving meaningful change across industries.
Now in its third year, the Changemakers list, inspired by CNBC Senior Media & Technology Correspondent Julia Boorstin’s best-selling book, “When Women Lead,” honors women who are reshaping the business landscape through innovation, leadership, and impact. Reses and Ball bring decades of experience in finance, investing, and entrepreneurship, and their insights will be instrumental in selecting the 2026 honorees.
Nominations for the 2026 Changemakers list are currently open and run through November 21, 2025, at 11:59pm ET. Nominations are open to women in senior leadership roles at companies with at least $25 million in annual revenue in at least one of the past three years or with an enterprise value of at least $100 million for private companies or $250 million for public companies. The list will be selected with a data-driven approach that considers the quantitative and qualitative impact and significance of each nominee’s contribution to their industry or sector in 2025. Complete details on how to apply can be found here: cnbc.com/changemakers.
The CNBC Changemakers list will be announced in February 2026 and an event celebrating the 2026 CNBC Changemakers will take place in the spring.
Learn more about Jacqueline Reses and Patience Ball below:
Jacqueline Reses
Jacqueline 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.
Jacqueline also spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions and principal investment areas. Jacqueline 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 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.
Jacqueline 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, published by McGraw Hill, to help small businesses start, run and grow their business. She holds multiple patents in payments, credit and cryptocurrency.
Patience Ball
Patience Marime-Ball is Impact Chairperson at Apollo, where she is co-responsible for the Firm’s impact investing platform. As a seasoned investor, she has been recognized for using the levers of finance to innovate pathways to create a more equal world. Working alongside other investment leaders, she has catalyzed investments in ways that recognize all people as essential drivers of our global economy.
Bringing nearly 30 years of investment experience across capital markets – including debt and equity financing, large scale infrastructure, distressed assets, as well as venture stage opportunities – Patience developed the multi-billion-dollar Banking on Women platform at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and was responsible for co-designing IFC’s multi-billion-dollar Global Trade Liquidity Program.
She founded and was CEO of Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit focused on centralizing women as economic, environmental, and social changemakers while delivering market-rate, risk adjusted returns and impact at scale. She is also the co-author of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, which makes the business case for a new paradigm of gender-diverse investing. The book argues that when more women have greater decision-making roles and optimize their skills across capital markets, that leads to higher returns for investors and more inclusive economic growth.
Patience serves on the Board of MIO Partners, and on several advisory committees including Emerging Sun LLC, a company she co-founded in 2005. Patience holds a JD from the Pritzker School of Law and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.
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