Nicolas Chikhani

Chief Experience Officer at Gardyn

Nicolas Chikhani has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. Nicolas is currently the Chief Experience Officer at Gardyn since July 2022. Prior to this, they served as a Board Member at BistroMD, LLC starting in April 2021. Nicolas also has experience as an Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York, where they taught a course on Performance, Objectives, and Results using Data Analytics starting in January 2019.

Nicolas held the position of Chief Product Officer at Feelmore Labs from July 2019 to July 2022. Before that, they worked at WW (formerly Weight Watchers) in various product management roles. Nicolas served as the Vice President of Product Management from October 2017 to July 2019, Senior Director of Product Management from April 2017 to September 2017, Director of Product Management from April 2015 to March 2017, and Product Manager from June 2013 to March 2015.

Prior to their career in the health and wellness industry, Nicolas worked at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. Nicolas served as a Manager from January 2013 to June 2013, an Associate from February 2011 to January 2013, and an Analyst from July 2009 to January 2011. During their time at Morgan Stanley, they implemented various improvements to asset allocation practices and designed tools to enhance team efficiency.

Nicolas started their career as a Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge's Statistical Laboratory, where they worked on a Merton problem in an illiquid market for a brief period in 2008. Nicolas also gained experience as a Trading Support Assistant in Programming at HSBC, where they developed new data reading/saving structures and programmed in VBA for Excel and Access from December 2007 to March 2008.

Nicolas Chikhani has a Master of Science degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, which they obtained from 2008 to 2009. Prior to that, they attended ENSTA Paris from 2006 to 2009 and earned a Diplome d'Ingenieur (French Master level). In addition, they completed a Certificate in Management, Strategy, Technology, and Entrepreneurship from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech from 2006 to 2007.

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  • Chief Experience Officer

    July, 2022 - present

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