Jamie C. Nicholls is a Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Inc. She has been the Chairman since November 2010 and a Trustee since 2006. She has served as a General Partner at Forstmann Little & Co. and FLC XXIX Partnership, L.P and joined it in 1995. Ms. Nicholls recently joined the Board of Overseers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is a member of the Executive Committee of The Brearley School. Ms. Nicholls served as Director of Yankee Holding Corp. (formerly Yankee Candle Co. Inc.) Prior to joining Forstmann Little & Co., she was an Associate in Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s principal investment area from 1993 to 1995. Ms. Nicholls graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1988 where she received a B.A. degree in English and French. She also received her M.B.A. degree in 1992 from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She and her husband, Fran Biondi, co-founder of King Street Capital Management L.P., live in New York City and Mill Neck, N.Y., and have three children.