Cash Nickerson

With over $440 million in annual sales, PDS is the fourth largest engineering and Information Technology staffing firm in the United States. In addition to his work with PDS Tech, Nickerson has held a variety of legal and executive positions in his 25-plus-year 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 U.S. 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.