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The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, a newly-formed non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and delivering educational support to ambitious entrepreneurs, today named Nicola Corzine as its Executive Director. As Executive Director, Ms. Corzine will be responsible for strategic and operational leadership and will work closely with the Entrepreneurial Center's President and board of directors to drive and implement program planning, fundraising, and business operations.
Slated to open later this year, the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, located at 505 Howard Street in San Francisco's South Financial District, will convene, connect and engage aspiring and current entrepreneurs, while also serving the community of the greater Bay Area through events, education and mentor programming. The Entrepreneurial Center is funded through a grant from the Nasdaq Educational Foundation.
Serving and supporting the broader ecosystem of Silicon Valley, the Entrepreneurial Center will provide unprecedented mentorship programs that leverage the support of its partner organization, Nasdaq, as home to the world's most innovative companies and business leaders.
"We are very excited to have Nicola join the Entrepreneurial Center team," said Bruce Aust, Vice Chairman at Nasdaq and President of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. "Nicola's experience brings together a unique combination of seed funding and entrepreneurial education, which is right at the focal point of what we need to foster entrepreneurial talent from the next generation of innovators."
Ms. Corzine brings over 15 years of strategic business development and entrepreneurial thought leadership programming experience to the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. Ms. Corzine was previously a Partner at Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization, and was Executive Director at Financing Partners, where she was responsible for creating program curriculum for entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley including investor forums and workshops.
"I am honored and delighted to have the opportunity and support of Nasdaq's Educational Foundation to build a center of excellence in the Bay Area that will accelerate the ongoing development of current and future generations of great entrepreneurs," said Nicola Corzine, Executive Director, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center.
Resources at the Entrepreneurial Center will be open to the public and will include classrooms – to be used for ongoing educational programming, workshops and hands-on mentoring – a public museum that documents the living path of entrepreneurship, a coffee shop for individuals to gather and exchange best-practices and ideas, and a studio space available for entrepreneurs as a means to produce high quality media programming.
