Christopher Nixon Cox
Christopher Nixon Cox (born March 14, 1979)[1] is an American lawyer based in New York. He is the son of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox, and grandson of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. Cox is the CEO of Lightswitch Capital, a private equity fund investing in biotech companies.[2]
Chris Cox
March 14, 1979
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (maternal aunt)
Richard Nixon (maternal grandfather)
Pat Nixon (maternal grandmother)
Jennie Eisenhower (maternal cousin)
Early life and education[edit]
Christopher Nixon Cox was born on 14 March 1979 at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City,[3] the only child of New York State GOP Chairman Edward F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox, older daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.[4]
He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics. He then went on to receive his J.D. from NYU School of Law and a certificate in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.[5]
Personal life[edit]
On June 4, 2011, Cox married Andrea Catsimatidis, daughter of Gristedes billionaire John Catsimatidis, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York's Upper East Side.[37] The couple filed for divorce on December 17, 2014.