Chief Solution Officer & innovation leader. Amazon #1 bestselling author. Faculty Chair at Singularity University. 15+ years in corporate innovation, venture capital & startups. US Navy veteran driving mission-led change.
Nick Davis is Chief Solution Officer at Forbes Ignite and Chief Platform Officer of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, a Feeding America member food bank, where he leads technology and innovation efforts to combat hunger and improve health outcomes. He also serves as Faculty Chair of Corporate Innovation at Singularity University, directing research and thought leadership in corporate innovation strategy. A recognized thought leader in corporate innovation management, civic and social innovation, and entrepreneurship, Nick is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller Future Ready: A Changemakers Guide to the Exponential Revolution. Over the past 15 years, he has built a distinguished career spanning executive education, corporate innovation, venture capital, and high-growth startups. His expertise includes identifying exponential trends, futuring to stave off market disruption, concept and prototype development, and building corporate innovation labs and incubators within global startup ecosystems. Previously, Nick served as Director of Corporate Innovation at RocketSpace and as External Innovation Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the US. He is also the co-founder of Scalefunder, Inc., which was acquired by Ruffalo Cody in 2014. Nick holds a degree in Political Science with a minor in Theatre from The Ohio State University and is an alumnus of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and ESADE Business School's program in Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A veteran of the US Navy, where he served in Military Intelligence, Nick brings a uniquely disciplined and mission-driven perspective to everything he does.
