Steven “Cash” Nickerson is Chairman & CEO of Nickerson Stoneleigh, Inc., a private investment firm he founded with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. He is also President of Cash Nickerson, PC, a law and negotiation consulting firm. He was Chairman of North America of AKKA Technologies, SE, based in Brussels, Belgium, prior to its sale to Adecco SA, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He was President, CFO, General Counsel, and the second largest shareholder of PDS Tech, Inc. prior to its sale to AKKA Technologies, SE. Previous roles include corporate attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad, associate and then a partner at Am Law 200 law firm Jenner & Block, and Chairman and CEO of a tech company. Mr. Nickerson, author of eight books, is an avid writer and speaker on negotiation, the workplace, jobs, and the economy. Among his many talks, Mr. Nickerson spoke at John Hopkins University to the NASA employees working on the Hubble Telescope about Listening and was most recently a TEDx speaker in Hartford on The Seven Tensions of Negotiation. Mr. Nickerson is the founder and president of the David H. Nickerson Foundation, which supports prostate cancer research.
In addition to his leadership on the Board of Trustees, Mr. Nickerson is Chair of the Law School National Council and is a member of the International Council of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. He is chair of both the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin-San Antonio Regional Cabinets and chaired the North and Central Texas Regional Campaign for Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University. Mr. Nickerson is the recipient of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Award (2009), the Global Philanthropy Award for the Harris Institute Crimes Against Humanity Initiative (2010), the School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award (2013), and the Founders Day Distinguished Alumni Award (2014). Mr. Nickerson earned his BA from Carleton College and his MBA and JD from Washington University, where he was an editor of the Washington University Law Review. He is currently a JSD candidate and was recently appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Professor at WashU Law teaching Business Lawyering and Negotiation.