Nick Papanicolaou

CEO
No Sleep Beverage

Nick Papanicolaou is a seasoned finance, operations & startup Beverage Alcohol professional with 20+ years of experience in managing deals, valuing companies, forecasting trends, launching ventures (3 so far), improving efficiencies and scaling businesses. He is the Founder and CEO of No Sleep Beverage, an investment and operating platform for alcohol beverage brands. He sits on several startup Boards and was previously on the Investment Committee and LP Advisory Committee for a $60M+ venture capital fund. He also sat on Pernod Ricard’s Audit Committee and reported to the CFO of Pernod Ricard North America.

At Pernod Ricard, Nick oversaw Castle Brands, a $100M sales business. Prior to that, he ran the Incubate Brands, a $20M business within Pernod Ricard’s New Brand Ventures division. Nick has helped to deploy almost $1B in capital into small and emerging brands. These investments accounted for over 20% of Pernod Ricard USA’s top line growth in less than 5 years. Additionally, he launched New Brand Ventures in 2016, a hybrid internal incubator and corporate venture capital group responsible for most of the emerging brands at Pernod Ricard.

Prior to Pernod Ricard, he launched two companies (one in the alcohol beverage space) and spent 6 years in investment banking mostly raising capital in the equity markets. Nick is a graduate of Columbia Business School where he received his MBA in Value Investing and Entrepreneurship. He is also a graduate of Harvard College.