Nick is SVP of Corporate Reputation at Mission North, a boutique strategic communications firm that works with science and technology companies changing the way we work and live. He supports publicly traded and pre-IPO companies with reputation-building strategies and programs, crafting public affairs and advocacy campaigns, developing issues management programs, and supporting growth and business transformation efforts. Nick has worked across categories, with a focus on highly-regulated and highly-scrutinized industries. Much of his expertise is in helping companies build strategies to address and manage rapidly evolving stakeholder expectations brought on by social and societal changes and increased expectations from audiences ranging from opinion elites, customers and employees, to activists, policymakers and regulators. Nick also helps clients understand and adapt how they communicate in a dynamic and often adversarial messaging environment where traditional marketing and communication approaches tend to be less effective in moving and persuading audiences.
Prior to joining Mission North, Nick worked at Purple Strategies, a boutique strategy and reputation management firm, as a senior director. He gained global experience from roles with APCO Worldwide and Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) where he lived and worked abroad in the Middle East and Asia supporting corporate growth initiatives, including market entry, M&A, training and development and capacity building.
Nick is based in and leads Mission North's Washington, DC office. He graduated cum laude from the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. He lives with his wife and 4 year-old son on Capitol Hill.