Nicole is Chief of Staff to Vinod Khosla. She has led frontier AI investments across infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, defense, and bio: Medal, Highlight, Scenarix, Storycraft, Ink.ai, Somite, Vero, and Mara.
Prior to KV, Nicole completed a DPhil in cancer and viral immunology through the Rhodes Scholarship and NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program. As part of her graduate work, she identified how antiviral immune responses can be co-opted to mount robust immune responses against Glioblastoma, the most common malignancy of the Central Nervous System. Outside of the lab, Nicole bootstrapped to profitability Or & Elle — a luxury, lab-grown diamond brand.
Nicole graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins with a degree in Neuroscience, as a Hodson Trust Merit and Goldwater Scholar.
