Nicholas co-founded HangIt with Jason Hogg, and leads the company in the role of Chief Executive Office. Nicholas crafted HangIt’s initial patent filing in 2011 and is currently responsible for architecting HangIt’s contextually-aware, location-based platform. Nicholas has spent the last two decades as a technology senior executive, having served as a Vice President of Technology at American Express and General Counsel for Revolution Money. Prior to these leadership roles, he practiced as an intellectual property law as an attorney at Merchant & Gould from 1999 to 2006 At Revolution Money, Nicholas closed $100M in financings, and led the company through the process of transaction to American Express for a sale price in excess of $300M in 2010. In the wake of the sale to American Express, Revolution Money was rebranded as Serve, which is the fastest growing bank-on-a-card product in America today. At American Express, Nicholas functioned as a technology executive, architecting DevExchange, which is an Open API platform used by business units across the organization. DevExchange is used to support many of Serve’s most successful partnerships. Nicholas has deep experience in intellectual property, having architected Revolution Money’s intellectual property, which today includes twenty-seven issued patents in the United States alone, including some of American Express’s most important patents. Nicholas holds JD from New York University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University.