Nick Evens

President & CEO Curql

As President and CEO of Curql Collective, LLC, Nick cultivates opportunities to help fintech and credit unions collaborate on breakthrough technologies that minimize threats and successfully transform, improve, disrupt, and position the industry with abest-in-class member experience. The Curql Fundshave 130 credit unions and industry investors with over $500MM in capital to be deployed intransformative technology for the benefit of credit unions. Prior to leading Curql Collective, Nick was President of The Veridian Group, Inc. (TVG), the wholly owned CUSO holding company of Veridian Credit Union, where he led equity investment strategy and direction for the $7.8B institution. Based in Waterloo, Iowa, TVG’s holdings include Veridian Insurance and Veridian Fiscal Solutions with a total staff over 45 strong. During his tenure, Nick managed TVG’s more than ten direct minority investments inCUSO companies, positioning the organization with direct equity stakes in Dwolla, Alkami Technology,and Moov and committing approximately $10MM in six venture or seed capital funds. Nick serves on the board of NACUSO and CSS as well as fintech companies, Coviance and Illuma.