Patience Marime-Ball, Esq

Patience Marime-Ball is Impact Chairperson at Apollo, where she is responsible for elements of the Firm's impact investing platform. She has more than two and half decades of investment experience across capital markets – including debt and equity financing, large-scale infrastructure, distressed assets, as well as venture stage opportunities. Patience has led many “firsts” in the investing space, including the multi-billion-dollar Banking on Women platform and multi-billion-dollar Global Trade Liquidity Program at the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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Patience co-founded Emerging Sun LLC in 2005, founded Women of the World Endowment in 2018 and co-authored The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk in 2022. She holds a JD from the Pritzker School of Law and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.