Founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub restaurants located in Illinois. Nick has been featured on the cover of Inc. magazine, on Fox Business and in the pages of Newsweek for his creative and values-driven approach to leadership and training. Nick’s Pizza & Pub is ranked by Pizza Today as the fifth busiest independent pizza company in the United States. Nick describes his key roles in the company as “visionary, CEO, and mentor to the senior leadership team. He has built an organization where people are invested in what they are doing; feel good about their jobs and the end result has created happy customers and a healthy business. In addition to his day-to-day work, Nick regularly speaks at restaurant industry events, and business conferences.