Nichol Bradford
CEO & Founder, Willow Group
Nichol Bradford is a pioneer, innovator, investor and thought leader at the intersection of technology and human transformation.
Nichol invests as the Co-Founder and Partner at Nirmeia Collective, a seed stage venture fund. She builds community as the Co-Founder of Transformative Tech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing tech founders, investors, and innovators – with 9000 members in 72 countries. She shapes global thinking as a speaker, futurist, strategist, and author.
Nichol is a senior interactive entertainment executive. She has been responsible for strategy, operations, marketing and production roles at major brands that include: Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi. Nichol led operations for World of Warcraft China and all of Blizzard Entertainment’s properties in China as well as held a key role on the Vivendi Games team responsible for the Activision-Blizzard merger – an $18B deal and an industry defining event. She has helped produce events in the metaverse at Epic that broke world records.
Nichol is an Adjunct professor at Stanford University, a graduate of Singularity University’s Global Solutions program, and she has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She is a university Trustee at CIIS and is a fellow of the British American Project.