Nick Kioko

Currently at the prestigious Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania, our CEO, Nick Kioko, is not new to the world of college admissions. His experience spans over 3 years working in various highly selective and reputable college access programs including but not limited to KenSAP where he served as the Assistant Program Manager and Lead Mentor for 3 years, BUILD Nigeria where he served as the Project Manager for 1 year, HALI Access Network where he served as an Events Planner and Coordinator for the HALI University Fair (during his part-time engagement with HALI he managed to host a delegation of admission officers and regional directors from top ranking US Universities including Yale, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Davidson and John Hopkins among other universities in-person in Nairobi, Kenya), Aiglon SEBA CZ Scholarship Committee where he served as the Recruitment and Relations Coordinator and still advices on selection for the prestigious scholarship, Schmidt Futures where he served as the RISE Outreach Coordinator and oversaw the recruitment of over 30 out of 500 finalists and 4 out of 100 Global winners for the prestigious RISE Scholarship, and Peponi School where he worked with select students on College Applications leading to their admissions. Currently he serves as an Admissions Student Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. His insights across all these and other engagements within the field have been crucial in developing our unique programming, building our networks, and drafting our success story since when we began our pilot program as informal efforts in 2021.