Nicole Washington, M.S., has nearly 20 years of systems integration experience, including systems implementation, design and programming from her previous career with Ernst & Young, Whittman Hart and MarchFirst management consulting firms. She is the founder and owner of Micro Biz Coach®, a firm that focuses on educating business owners to leverage various aspects of internet technology in their operations in order to maximize efficiency and to effectively compete with larger businesses. Its clients have been featured on CNBC, Fox Business News, TheStreet.com and a host of Clear Channel radio stations.

Nicole was most recently engaged with Octane, a non-profit organization supported by partners that have a combined revenue of almost $200 billion and together they employ over 800,000 people. She has held two positions with this organization: Director of Innovation & Growth where she focused on creating an ecosystem to help high-growth companies scale and Senior Advisor of Community Engagement where she led philanthropic initiatives to make the Octane network more accessible to underrepresented groups.

Nicole is also the founder of Nicole’s Naturals® Inc. (Est. 2014). Nicole’s Naturals is a gluten free food manufacturing company specializing in the development of gluten free grain products with the texture and taste of traditional gluten products.

She is a member of the Angel Capital Association and the Ohio TechAngel Fund, the 2nd largest Angel Investor Network in the United States, where she served as the due diligence team technology lead for several years. Nicole has served on several boards including the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and the Samueli Academy Board of Trustees.