Nick is a Physician Assistant with extensive experience in personal protection and threat mitigation in foreign and domestic environments. In addition to his advanced level medical provider skills, he has also served as a subject matter expert instructor in the areas of personnel protection, threat identification and mitigation, defensive combat skills, and firearms at the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers and within the US Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service.

Nick has 20 years of experience in protection operations. He’s served in the Deployable Specialized Forces within the Coast Guard performing operations throughout Latin America and in the Middle East, where he filled roles as a tactical team medic and a federal law enforcement officer during counter drug and counter terrorism missions. After leaving active-duty service in 2007, he worked under contract for the DOD and US Department of State Diplomatic Security Service High Threat Protection Division where he worked for 7+ years as a medic and team member conducting personnel security operations for the US Ambassador to Iraq, the US Consulate General in Kurdistan, and for many other US diplomats, dignitaries, and politicians traveling overseas in high threat environments on official US government business. At the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Nick trained US Secret Service, Federal Air Marshals, FBI, Border Patrol, Capitol Police, and Commercial Pilots to carry out armed protection and threat mitigation, asset protection, self-defense, and tactical medicine. Nick also has experience protecting celebrities, high-net worth individuals, and corporate movie industry information. In more recent years, Nick has refocused his career on practicing medicine at an advanced level as a Physician Assistant, and he currently maintains trauma, primary care, and advanced adult and pediatric life support certifications.

Nick is an avid international traveler for both work and leisure. He is also an endurance athlete who enjoys triathlon and Ironman competitions, cycling, scuba diving, boating, and researching medicine in his free time.