Nick Memmo is a Managing Partner of Vicente Capital Partners.  He joined Kline Hawkes in 1999 as a Partner and currently serves as a member of the investment committee for Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P.

Nick leverages his operations and direct line experience as an accomplished COO to pursue and manage investments in business service, consumer service and specialty manufacturing industries.

He is Chairman of the Board of Environmental Services Group, Inc., Rayne Corporation and IPMobileNet, Inc.  He has had board seats and board observer positions for the following companies: CaseStack, Keylime Software, National Water & Power and PrimeSource Surgical.

Previously, Nick was a Founding Executive and member of the Board of Directors of USFilter Corporation (NYSE: USF), a Fortune 300 company and the leading global provider of water and wastewater treatment systems, products and services.  He was at the center of USF’s strategy to consolidate the water industry and played a key role in the growth of the company’s revenue’s from $17 million to $5.2 billion.  Nick was President & COO of the Process Water Group, the industrial process water equipment and services division of USF.

Prior to USF, Nick was employed by Hercules Incorporated, a specialty chemical company, first in engineering and product development, and later in sales, marketing and distribution positions.

Nick Memmo received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was a Venture Capital Fellow.  He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the UCLA Anderson School’s Entrepreneurial Studies Center and was a recipient of the Drexel University 2001 College of Engineering Alumni Circle of Distinction Award.