Anna Nichols is managing director for content for Family Office Exchange (FOX), a Chicago-based provider of research, education and advice to ultra-affluent families and their advisors. She is responsible for a broad array of strategic and tactical content matter for the firm.

In addition to the day to day management of FOX’s research team, Ms. Nichols is responsible for planning conference and roundtable content. She is also the lead author for many of the larger market research studies and oversees the resource allocation and implementation of many smaller studies and white papers. Ms. Nichols is a frequent speaker and facilitator at FOX events as well as external industry forums. She has written articles on a wide range of generational wealth topics for the Journal of Trusts and Estates and Private Wealth Management, among other publications.

Before joining FOX, Ms. Nichols served as marketing manager for programs at the YWCA in New York City. She later served as assistant director for continuing legal education at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she oversaw the implementation of more than 100 live programs per year in addition to the marketing and sale of programs on tape and online.

Ms. Nichols came to Chicago as a consultant for the Real Property Probate and Trust Section of the American Bar Association. She received a bachelor’s degree from Guilford College and an MBA from Fordham University.