Nick Fitzwilliams
Education
Oxford Brookes University
Bsc, Economics 1986-01-01 - 1989-01-01Work Experience
JAVA Coffee Company
Current
JAVA Coffee Company
Own VC
2002-06-01 - 2012-09-01
Own VC
SPARK Venture Management
2008-01-01 - 2008-11-01
SPARK Venture Management
Franklin Templeton
1996-07-01 - 2002-05-01
Franklin Templeton
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
1994-11-01 - 1996-07-01
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
Nunn Hayward LLP
1992-09-01 - 1994-11-01
Nunn Hayward LLP
Skills
Summary
I get my kicks from constructing businesses.... although perhaps I should have been an architect. I enjoy working with individuals, building team structures and empowering key people to develop and grow their skills/responsibilities. The more experience and success I achieve the more ambitious I become. I will never lose sight of the fact that people's expectations need to be managed, dignity as well as reward must be given for hard work. I want my co-workers to be successful in their own right. Success, unshared, is failure. My stand outs : Details are my thing, I am mindful never to stay in the comfort zone and constantly test limits to my resilience and raise the bar of the meaning of success...it is not just about money. I call my attitude to building a business : positive paranoia. Right now my focus is on the democratization of a luxury product : specialty coffee.
