Nick comes from a middle-class, blue-collar family in Southern California and Tacoma Washington.  Not having the means for college and wanting to serve his country, he enlisted in the Navy directly after High School in 1998.

Wanting to have a direct impact on the War on Terror, Nick became a Navy SEAL, completing 7 operational deployments around the world. Nick retired from the Navy after 20 years of service in 2019 and joined the civilian work force.  He spent the next 5 years in the Medical Technology (MEDTECH) industry working in Operations, Marketing, and HR.  While working in MEDTECH obtained his MBA from UCLA, was co-founder of a start-up SaaS platform, and joined a Drone start-up company as part of the business development leadership team. At UCLA is where Nick was introduced to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) and knew that was his calling.

Nick believes his personal attributes of proven determination, grit, and comfortability in excelling in unfamiliar environments & adversities has greatly contributed to his successes. Nick is confident he will be a successful business operator and owner due to his leadership background, corporate experience, executive & expert mentor industry network, and education.