Wish Strengthens Leadership With Key Appointment to Board of Directors

By STS News Desk On Dec 18, 2020

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ContextLogic Inc. (d/b/a “Wish”) today announced the appointment of Jacqueline Reses to its Board of Directors. Ms. Reses is a seasoned executive with extensive international and public company board experience.

Jacqueline Reses joins existing board members Julie Bradley (Former CFO, Tripadvisor, Inc.), Ari Emanuel (CEO, Endeavour Group Holdings), Joe Lonsdale (Co-Founder, Eight Partners VC, LLC), Tanzeen Syed (Managing Director, General Atlantic), Stephanie Tilenius (CEO, Vida Health, Inc.), Hans Tung (Managing Partner, GGV Capital), and Peter Szulczewski.

“This is an exciting time in the company’s history and I am thrilled to be joining Wish’s distinguished board. I look forward to drawing upon my experience as a financial and technology executive, and public company board member to support and contribute to Wish’s development as a newly publicly traded company in the global mobile commerce space,” said Reses.

Ms. Reses previously served as Executive Chairman of Square Financial Services LLC and Capital Lead at Square, Inc., a publicly traded financial services company which provides payments, point of sale, and cashflow management services to small businesses and consumers, from October 2015 until October 2020. From February 2016 to July 2018, Ms. Reses also served as People Lead for Square, Inc. From September 2012 to October 2015, Ms.

Reses served as Chief Development Officer of Yahoo! Inc. In this role, she focused on leading partnerships, acquisitions and investments, significant corporate tax transactions, as well as human resources. Prior to Yahoo, Ms. Reses led the U.S. media group as a Partner at Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, a global private equity firm, which she joined in 2001.

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