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    Nickolaus Casares

    Product Director, Polyient Labs

    San Diego

    Nick is a product management instructor at General Assembly. By day, he is the product director at Polyient Labs, where he coaches early-stage startup founders through the product development process.

    During nights and weekends, he leads product management courses and workshops at GA and has taught in both San Diego and Denver. Prior to Polyient Labs, Nick led teams in a variety of product and user experience roles at B2C and B2B companies across several industries including cloud storage, law enforcement, marketing analytics, commercial real estate and blockchain.

    Nick's skill set in product management and user experience has been developed through constant self-education, relevant industry experience and a network of ongoing mentors. In 2017, Nick served as the managing director for San Diego Startup Week where he lead a team of 80+ volunteer organizers through the process of planning a 3,500 person, five-day educational event.

    In his free time, Nick enjoys spending time with his wife and surfing the San Diego coastline.

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