Nicole Petallides, Anchor at FOX Business Network, spoke at a Special Program on Business and the Media on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at the 21st Annual leadership 100 Conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach in Manalapan, Florida. She was presented with the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence.

Petallides joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in September 2007 as an anchor. She also serves as FBN’s main NYSE correspondent, reporting live daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining FBN, she was an anchor at Bloomberg Television where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for the nationally syndicated Bloomberg Business Report and Bloomberg Market Update. While at Bloomberg, Petallides also covered weekend news and served as a business news anchor for CW-11’s WPIX morning news program in New York.

Before joining Bloomberg, Petallides served as an assistant producer for CNBC, where she produced daily floor reports from the NYSE. Prior to CNBC, she was a segment producer for Dow Jones Television’s The Wall Street Journal Report with Consuelo Mack and international programs Asian Business News and European Business News. Petallides has also contributed to FOX affiliate WNYW’s morning show Good Day New York, NY1 News, CNN and News 12 Long Island. A Great Neck, New York native, she graduated from American University.

Nicole Anais Petallides was born in 1971 in Queens, New York. Petallides, along with Jenna Lee, were the first two anchors on the air when the FOX Business Network made its debut. Petallides is the daughter of Fannie Holliday and John Petallides. Her mother was the founder and chief operating officer of Proini, a Greek-language daily newspaper, and of The Greek American, an English-language weekly newspaper.

Petallides graduated from American University in 1993 where she studied business and communications. She was also a member of the NCAA DIV 1 Women’s Soccer Team for three years. In 1998, she married Manhattan Prosthodontist Nicholas Tsiolas in a ceremony performed in the Greek Orthodox Church by His Eminence Archbishop Spyridon.