Nick is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Énergant Corporation, a technology management consultancy headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. He is responsible for strategic direction and execution of Énergant’s global practice areas, business development activities, including IT governance, IT architecture, and strategic competitive sourcing. As a member of the firm’s executive committee he helps formulate practice strategy, total client care services, and new business diagnostic technologies.

With over 20 years of experience in academia and consulting, he has significant experience with the Fortune 500 and major agencies in the U.S. Federal Government. He has developed business technologies strategies, new venture business models, and has redesigned operational business processes for IT organizations. In addition he has delivered hundreds of senior executive education programs, and has coached a number of the nations’ top executive teams. Among his roster of clients is Cargill, Exxon, Federal Express, Fidelity Investments, the Internal Revenue Service, Johnson and Johnson, Oracle, Pfizer, and Thomson. He is a sought-after public speaker and has spoken at conference venues globally.

As Executive Vice President, co-founder and director of the Concours Group he was responsible for developing the company’s business strategy, practice areas, and research programs. He was also the U.S. managing director for Concours European Operations. Before departing in 2002, he helped grow the company’s revenues to over $40 million.

While serving as Senior Vice President at Computer Sciences Corporation, he was CSC Index’s Global IT Practice Leader, and Executive Director of CSC’s research and advisory services. While there, he led CSC’s taskforce on object-oriented development and served on the company’s Global Technology Steering Committee. In addition, he consulted with many of CSC’s key accounts in the areas of rapid application development, technology strategy and IT outsourcing.

Since 1981, he also held associate professor and associate dean positions at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. He has Ph.D. and MBA degrees from the University of Minnesota, and an undergraduate degree from Marquette University.