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Nick is a Senior Partner at K50 Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund focused on access and affordability for the mass market and SMEs. Nick believes that customer-first solutions, as well as data and computation will help address pressing real-world challenges that with it brings considerable commercial opportunity to invest in solutions. He has brought this focus to bear most significantly in financial services, the future of work, and marketplaces through over 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley as an builder, operator, advisor and angel investor.
Nick started his career at Bain and Company, and started his journey in fintech in 1999 where he was ETRADE’s first MBA intern, and later joined Schwab Bank as a founding Director. He ran sales and strategy for Citibank’s credit card business for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and served as Citi’s country manager in Sweden, which was a digital bank. He ran the credit card business for Visa for North America, built Amazon’s Lending business into a 100MM+ profit business, ran all vehicle supply globally for Uber and served as President and CEO of CircleUp, a data insights business working to transform the way investors fund private companies.
In 2013 the World Economic Forum named Nick a Young Global Leader in recognition of his work on inclusion, and he is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship.
Nick has an MBA from Wharton and an undergraduate degree in international politics and economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, where he serves on the Board.
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