Managing Partner
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Nick has been selling businesses in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. He is a financial engineer, negotiator, tactician, and strategic thinker who has helped dozens of business owners reach their ultimate objectives and successfully optimize the sale of their business. He has experience representing companies in manufacturing, distribution, software, technology, consumer, retail, energy, healthcare, and service businesses. Nick was with CMS Companies in Philadelphia from 1987 to 1990, working with successful entrepreneurs to build, diversify, and transfer wealth through asset allocation analysis, private equity placement, and estate planning strategies. Nick moved back to Portland in 1991, and acquired Fine Arts Graphics, a corporate stationery manufacturing company, where he served as President and CEO. In 1999 he hired Veber Partners, a Portland Oregon-based boutique investment bank, to represent him in selling the company to ImageX.com. He stayed with the company through its IPO in 2000, and then joined Veber Partners in 2001 as a Partner doing lower middle market M&A and corporate finance. Upon the retirement of Gayle Veber in 2022, Nick and Rodger Adams formed Crown Point Partners to focus exclusively on sell-side and buy-side representation. Nick has served on the Boards of Motive Power Industries (NYSE MPI), ProteoGenix, and Mass Ingenuity. In addition, he has committed time to community interests and has served on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Oregon Independent College Foundation, the Citizens Crime Commission, The Citizens Education Commission, The Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Oregon Forum, Self Enhancement Inc., Outward Bound West, Young Presidents Organization — Oregon, Entrepreneurs Organization, Social Venture Partners — Portland, and Oregon Episcopal School. Nick currently serves on the Board of Directors of St. Anthony Village Enterprise, Services for All Generations, and the Advisory Board of The OHSU Knight Cancer Council. Nick earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and Psychology from Georgetown University. He holds a Series 7 securities license. Since 1995 he has served as the Honorary Consul General to the Kingdom of Thailand for the Pacific Northwest.
