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Richard Nicholas, SVP, Corporate Development and Strategy

September 12, 2022

Rick leads the conception and execution of Hivelocity’s strategy for growth via M+A and organic paths and has been with Hivelocity for over five years. Prior to Hivelocity, Rick spent 5+ years leading E Solutions, an interconnection-focused data center business in Downtown Tampa through a period of rapid growth to a sale in 2012 followed by 3+ years at Cable Company Knology/WOW as the head of their data center and cloud practice. Rick moved to Tampa in 1998 and attended Plant High School.

He holds a BA in Political Science from Wake Forest University and is set to complete his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2023. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Bailey and three young children.