Nick is an Air Force Reserves Officer with US Cyber Command's Point of Partnership Team which is located at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley. He is also the Founder and CEO of POLCO.us, a policy crowdsourcing and political data analytics company. Previously Nick has worked as a Senior Economist for Amazon, Assistant Professor of Economics and Operations Research at the Air Force Academy, and as a Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors focusing on cyber security, finance, and innovation policies. Nick holds a PhD from University of Texas Austin in Economics with a focus in Game Theory and Econometrics applied to politics, and undergraduate degrees in Math and Physics from the University of Notre Dame.