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Nicos is CEO and co-founder of Attestiv where he manages all day to day company functions.

Nicos has spent 20+ years in the IT technology fields, as a business manager, entrepreneur, founder and adviser in startup companies. Prior to Attestiv, Nicos was co-founder and CEO of TwinStrata, a cloud storage company that pioneered delivering cloud storage to the enterprise and was sold to EMC in 2014.

Before TwinStrata, Nicos served as General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard. Nicos came to HP with the acquisition of StorageApps where he was the founding VP of Engineering. At StorageApps, he built a team that brought to market the industry's first storage virtualization appliance. Nicos was instrumental in the sale of StorageApps to Hewlett-Packard for $350M in 2001.

Prior to StorageApps, Nicos spent a number of years in the data storage industry working at Sun Microsystems and Encore Computer. At Encore, Nicos architected and delivered Encore Computer's SP data replication products that were a key factor in the $185M sale of Encore's storage division to Sun Microsystems.

Nicos holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Nicos is active in the startup community as an investor, adviser and Mentor through Founder Institute.