Boris Nikolic

One thing I find nore and more puzzling is that, at least on the web, there's no single "who's who" of the ever-widening circle of names surrounding Epstein. (If someone knows of such a thing, I'll be very grateful to hear of it.) Today I want to look at one of the few whose association with the guy hasn't resulted in job loss or similar calamity, Boris Nikolic. He's in the far right of the well-known 2011 photo of Gates with Epstein, Larry Summers, and Jes Staley.

In the famous photo, Nikolic comes off as a thuggish-looking James Bond villain. That he's named Boris doesn't help. But in other photos, he's housebroken and sincere. Which is it? His current position app;ears to be Managing Direcor of Biomatics Capital, where his thumbnail reads,

Dr. Nikolic is a physician and investor who previously served as chief advisor for science and technology to Bill Gates, leading select for-profit and not-for-profit investment activities. His investments spanned the life science, information technology and health care sectors, including companies such as Foundation Medicine, ResearchGate, Schrodinger and Nimbus Therapeutics.

In other words, he's an unassailable member of the tech investor elite, with credentials reaching back to a professorship at Harvard. The only glitch is that, as I noted in an earlier post here, he was inexplicably named in Epstein's will as “successor executor,” the person who would take control of the estate if the two named executors are unable or unwilling to. When this came up, Nikolic simply said he was "shocked" to learn of it, and the whole thing went away. Odd.

The most complete explanation of how Nikolic fit into the Epstein circle is in this story in the UK Daily Mail.

Before ever meeting Gates, Epstein knew of two people who were in his inner circle - Melanie Walker and Boris Nikolic.

Walker met Epstein just after she graduated college in 1992.

. . . Walker, who kept in touch with Epstein, introduced him to Nikolic, and the two became friends.

That eventually led to the first face-to-face meeting between Gates and Epstein, which took place at Epstein's New York City townhouse in January 2011, according to the Times.

The meeting is said to have included other associates of Epstein, including Eva Andersson-Dubin, the former Miss Sweden who is married to hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin.

After the hours-long meeting, Epstein wrote an email to friends saying: 'Bill's great.'

Gates also reportedly had positive things to say about Epstein.

In an email to colleagues obtained by the Times, he wrote: 'A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.'

. . . Soon afterward in May 2011, Gates paid another visit to Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, according to the Times.

The Times published a photo showing Epstein, Gates, Nikolic, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and James Staley, who at the time was an executive with JPMorgan.

At the time, the Gates Foundation and JPMorgan began discussions about creating a global charity that would fund health care projects in poor countries.

So what we're seeing is an extended network that includes two Epstein girlfriends who become connected with Nikolic, who acted in this episode as a go-between who could set up meetings with Bill Gates.

He sure seems proud of himself in the photo from the 2011 meeting, huh? But from what we read in the link, Nikolic and Melanie Walker, already friends, had both infiltrated the Gates operation on Epstein's behalf before any of the problem meetings with Ep;stein took place.