Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneural Thought Leaders series.

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I'm delighted that we're finishing up our regular school year with a ETL featuring Nicole Diaz. And I want to get this part right before

I talk about the fact that I also call her a friend, but she's something else. She's the global

head of integrity and compliance legal for SNAP. I'm pretty sure you all know or use Snapchat.

Her responsibilities there are promoting ethical business

standards and adherence to the code of conduct, which is something we're going to learn about

during her remarks. She also manages risk in key areas such as anti-bribery and trade law

and leading internal investigations. She's a Harvard Law School graduate.

Just too bad she didn't apply to Stanford. And an integrity first compliance attorney with over

a decade of experience in investigations, both civil and criminal cases. Wow, I'd love to talk about

that as well, but I'm not sure we'll have time.

Here's something's very important, though. She co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the

Law and Tech Diversity Collaborative and is a co-chair of SNAP Legal's Diversity Group.

But it's more. I've had a good fortune in getting to know her over the last couple of years.

We were introduced to each other via my counterpart at Duke University, John Feld,

and we all feel very strongly about elevating ethics when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship.

And that's what brought us together.

We actually did a number of webinars like this last year where the audience was academics and industry people. And that was a real joy to co-sponsor those with Duke and the University of St. Thomas. And Nicole participated in was just terrific. Because of that, I invited her to talk and come and teach with me this spring in our graduate class on

entrepreneurial finance and management, and that was really a lot of fun.

But we did a case on Uber and also talked about SNAP.

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