Victor K. Nichols
Victor K. Nichols’s 40 years of executive leadership and knowledge in information technology and the financial services industry, as well as his expertise in marketing, data analytics and strategic planning, add a valuable global perspective to the board and the Audit Committee.
Mr. Nichols is the Chairman of Make-A-Wish, International, a not-for-profit foundation providing life changing wishes to ill children in 50 countries outside of the U.S. and he has held that position since November 2022.
Mr. Nichols served as an independent advisor to Harland Clarke Holdings, now named Vericast. In 2019, he served as the company’s chairman and CEO from 2017 to 2019. As CEO, he oversaw Harland Clarke, Scantron, RetailMeNot and Valassis, businesses leading in financial services, education and marketing. He was CEO of Valassis from 2015 to 2016.
Mr. Nichols formerly served as CEO of North America, managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and president of global consumer services for Experian, the leading global information services company. Prior to Experian, he served as chief information officer at Wells Fargo & Company, president of Safeguard Business Systems, and held senior positions at Bank of America. Mr. Nichols was past president and founding partner of VICOR, Inc.
He holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Nichols was a director of Revlon Inc. where he served as a member of its Audit Committee from 2019 to 2023. Mr. Nichols served as a director of Zovio, an education technology services company, from 2014-2022. He served as chairman of Zovio’s Compensation Committee, and as a member of its Audit Committee. Mr. Nichols is an advisor to Trusona, a passwordless identity authentication company, and to Shield3 (aka Minty), a Web 3.0 Security start up. He has been an Advisor to Mitek, an identification technology provider, from 2014 to 2020 and to Bloom, a global consumer data provider, from 2019 to 2020. Mr. Nichols is a past member of the Economics Leadership Council, University of California, San Diego, served on the Leadership Council for UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, and served on the Dean’s Advisory Board, University of California, Irvine Merage School. As he has done throughout his career, Mr. Nichols continues to also support a variety of community service and nonprofit organizations.