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.