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Asia Center
Extends the reach and impact of the Milken Institute to the Asia-Pacific region
Center for Financial Markets
Conducts research and constructs programs designed to facilitate smooth and efficient operation of financial markets
Center for the Future of Aging
Advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through high-impact policies, research, convenings, and multisector partnerships.
Center for Public Health
Develops research, programs, and initiatives designed to envision and activate sustainable solutions leading to better health for individuals and communities worldwide.
Center for Regional Economics and California Center
Analyzes the dynamics that drive job creation and promote industry expansion
Center for Strategic Philanthropy
Empowers philanthropists to effectively address some of the world's most urgent problems
FasterCures
Clears roadblocks that prevent medical breakthroughs from reaching patients sooner
Financial Innovations Labs
Addressing society's greatest challenges through a financial lens
Global Market Development
Working with government partners in emerging and developing economies to build strong, domestic financial markets.
Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
Anyone with a dream should have the opportunity to make it come true—through determination and an economic system that works for all
Research Department
Addressing global policy issues on Health Economics, International Finance, and Regional Economics

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Marlon Nichols

Managing General Partner, MaC Venture Capital

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Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly Cross Culture Ventures), which finds entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. He's a former Investment Director at Intel Capital. He is Kauffman Fellows board member and adjunct in entrepreneurship and venture capital at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Marlon's unique eye for global trends and shifts in consumer behavior has helped him capture high-potential investments like Blavity, Fair, Faze Clan, Gimlet Media, LISNR, Mayvenn, MongoDB, Pipe, PlayVS, Thrive Market, Wonderschool and others. He's been featured on TechCrunch, Fortune, Blavity, and NBC, and was the recipient of MVMT50's SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year award, Digital Diversity's Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent award, and was named Pitchbook's 25 Black Founders and VCs to Watch in 2018 and 2019.