Nicole’s 20 year career spans leadership roles in finance, government, and operations. From starting her career as investment banker, Nicole has had a variety of finance roles including Portfolio Manager for the $100 mm New York City Investment Fund (sponsored by Henry Kravis) and Director of Investments for the New York City Empowerment Zone a $300 mm fund. Additionally, Nicole has both been a policy maker and policy shaper as Senior Advisor to the Mayor Bloomberg Administration and in her roles at Opower where she worked with utility regulators to enable adoption of innovative products. Lastly, her leadership of Energicity Corp’s operations builds on her experience being the VP of Operations and Product Management running the operations and software development of a $500mm book publisher and subsequently developing new products at Opower- a smart grid software company that IPO’ed in 2014.