A Texan In Tuscany
Author, businessman, and philanthropist, Cash Nickerson, is president and CFO of PDS Tech, Inc., the fourth-largest engineering and Information Technology staffing firm in the United States. He has held a variety of legal and executive positions in his career, including serving as an attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad and as an associate and then partner at Jenner & Block, one of Chicago’s five largest law firms. He founded a human resources company, Workforce Strategies, which he sold in three years for high seven figures and later founded an Internet company he took public through a reverse merger. Nickerson holds a JD and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an editor of the law review and a recipient of the US Steel Scholarship.  Nickerson is actively licensed to practice law in Texas, California, Illinois, Nevada, and Nebraska. He received the Global Philanthropy Award in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis for his support of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative and is a member of the Law School National Council. He is an avid martial artist, ranked as a third degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, as well as being a Russian Martial Arts instructor. His first book, StagNation: Understanding the New Normal in Employment, was published in 2013. He lives with his wife Evie in Austin, Texas.