Nick Owen, WiKID Systems

Affiliation:
CEO & Co-founder of WiKID Systems
Bio:
Nick has been involved with Internet start-ups since 1994 when he co-founded Interweb. This Web-site design and application development firm was originally funded with less than $100,000 and was sold four years later for over $13 million. He subsequently joined Derivion (now part of Metavante, where he was Chief Operations Officer. In this capacity, he was responsible for building the Technical Operations and Account Services teams, developing and architecting the data center, as well as customer service operations. In August of 2000 Nick co-founded iTendant, Inc. (now part of Abrahms Industries (ABRI). Using the Internet and wireless hand-held devices, iTendant provides property service and maintenance management solutions. iTendant was purchased by Abrahms Industries (ABRI) in late 2003. Nick was also an Entrepreneur-in-residence at the ATDC. He has invested in many companies including SPI Dynamics, TogetherWeb (now part of Proficient Systems), Connecture , RF Solutions (now part of Anadigics, and Servigistics . Nick earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MBA in finance and real estate from the University of Georgia.