Jackie is Catapult Capital’s Senior Advisor and is currently the Capital Lead at Square. Jackie oversees the team which has facilitated over $4.2B in loans to small businesses across the US. Jackie also started a banking services business within Square, Square Financial Services (SFS), and is the Executive Chairman of this independently-managed, wholly-owned company focused on building FDIC insured banking services at Square. Additionally, Jackie served as the Head of People (CHRO) where she also managed all leadership, recruiting and culture programs which have helped make Square one of the more referenced “great places to work”.
Prior to Square, Jackie was the Chief Development Officer for Yahoo. In this role, Jackie focused on developing and managing revenue and product partnerships which generated over $2B+ in annual revenue for Yahoo. She also ran M&A, executed significant corporate tax transactions, and ran the People team. Jackie was also on the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, China’s largest online and mobile commerce company. There, she co-chaired the audit committee and the compensation committee of the Board of Directors and also managed strategic M&A, banking and financial services transactions for both Alibaba and ANT Financial, one of China’s largest financial institutions.
Prior to joining Yahoo in 2012, Jackie led the U.S. media group at Apax Partners (2001-2011), one of the largest global private equity firms with over $50B in assets. While at Apax, she made some of the firm’s largest and complex investments in TMT including Intelsat, Cengage Learning, Hit Entertainment, and NEP Broadcasting. Jackie also managed significant LP and credit relationships on behalf of Apax. Jackie served as CEO of iBuilding Inc., a real estate software business spun-out of Tishman Speyer which was sold to Realeum Software in 2001. Jackie also spent seven years at Goldman Sachs (1992-1999) in mergers and acquisitions and the principal investment area.
Jackie was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business”, Crain’s New York Business’ “Most Influential Women,”, Business Insiders “Most Powerful People in Enterprise Technology” and was one of Dealmaker magazine’s “Dealmakers of the Year.” She has a patent pending for “Systems and Methods for Equitably Determining Employee Compensation” and multiple financial services patents. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.