Black Tech Entrepreneur of the Week: Marlon Nichols

For the month of February we announced that for Black History Month we would highlight four black tech entrepreneurs.

Our third entrepreneur is , Associate Director at Intel Capital

Bio
Marlon Nichols started his career in the software industry where he successfully led the deployment of many global enterprise software and business process improvement initiatives for Fortune 100 enterprises. During his time as a technologist, Marlon played a key role in the European expansion of a Cambridge based software company. Upon returning to the United States, Marlon worked as a principal strategist and senior manager for a strategy consulting firm focusing on new business development. While working fulltime as a consultant Marlon pursued what started out as a passion project and later evolved into an education focused nonprofit company called Rise to College. Under Marlon’s leadership Rise to College continues to grow while positively impacting the lives of over 200 hundred inner city high school students each year. Marlon studied Entrepreneurship and Private Equity at The Johnson School where he was a Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow and served as President/Chief Operating Officer of the BR Venture Fund, Cornell University’s $1.2M evergreen venture capital fund. After completing his MBA degree at Cornell Marlon was one of fifteen selected to join Intel’s Accelerated Leadership Program. Today Marlon works as an Associate Director at Intel Capital where he actively works to identify, invest in, partner with, and advise early stage high growth companies that operate in the digital media, consumer internet, and education technology sectors.

Marlon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University and a MBA from Cornell University. Marlon serves as an adviser to the BR Venture Fund and a number of start-up companies. Marlon is also the Co-Chairman of Rise to College.

Week 2: Black Tech Entrepreneur of the Week: Charles Hudson

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Wayne Sutton is an entrepreneur, advisor & technology Journalist. Co-editor at BlackWeb 2.0 . Partner at NewME Accelerator. You can find Wayne active on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook.
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