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Nicole Lapin is the founder and CEO of Nothing But Gold Productions, a multimedia production company focused on creating accessible financial content across various platforms. The child of a former Nobel Prize nominee and a beauty queen, it is easy to see where Nicole gets her brains and her beauty. But after the death of her father at an early age, this first generation American needed to make her own name. She went on to create her niche as the youngest anchor ever on CNN and, most recently, CNBC.

Nicole is the former anchor of “Worldwide Exchange,” the only global show on CNBC, which airs in the United States, Europe and Asia. She reported live daily on breaking global financial news and geopolitics. Nicole was also regular contributor on MSNBC and served as a personal finance expert on NBC’s “Today Show,” with regular opinion pieces in the Huffington Post and USA Today.

At 21, Nicole was tapped as one of the first anchors to launch CNN Pipeline. She served as a reporter for all of CNN’s networks, including CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News and CNN International. With the idea that there are other young people like herself defying convention, Nicole launched a series called “Young People Who Rock.” Each week, she profiled a different person under 30, from community leaders to politicians and entrepreneurs. Her columns appeared on CNN.com every week, with broadcast interviews to follow