About Me

In middle school my grades were so poor I would forge my report card before presenting it to my mother. I was a B- student in high school. Eight years after graduating high school I graduated from the Harvard Business School with an MBA. I have prayed in Mecca, Jerusalem, and next to the Nile River in Sudan. Life transformation is real. My most important effort is attempting to raise three children that will be better human beings than me.

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Entrepreneur

Shaqdown.mov

One Spear Entertainment

Co-Founder & CEO

Nique built a San Francisco-based entertainment IP publisher focused on mobile games. Games were built around popular celebrities including Shaquille O'Neal, Jet Li, and Muhammad Ali. The company was selected as #31 finest iPhone games publishers for January 2013 by Qi. Company and was sold in 2017.  Their first title Shaqdown was one of the first mobile game titles ever marketed on primetime TV.

Advisor

U.S. Department of Commerce

Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary Donald Evans

The White House

Detailee at USA Freedom Corp

Educator

Rice University | Jones Graduate School of Business

Lecturer in Management

Within the MBA@Rice program teaches The New Enterprise course (MGMT 531). The course is centered around evaluating opportunities for a new innovation-based enterprise; conceptualizing and developing a venture plan through an iterative process; articulating venture assumptions. 

Washington University in St. Louis | Olin Business School 

Adjunct Lecturer

Within the Center for Experiential Learning co-teach the Small Business Initiative (MGT.401S) and teach Applied Problem Solving for Organizations (MGT.501V).

Speaker

Nique has spoken at a number of leading conferences and events including TEDx.  Additionally he is the co-host of The Invisible Men podcast. The podcast is produced by the American Enterprise Insitute. Past guests include Dr. Roland Fryer Jr.,  Dr. Glenn Loury, Dr. John McWhorter, CEO Ralph Clark, Bob Woodson, 3x World Champion Lee Kemp, and Coleman Hughes.


Additionally, he has been a panelist at CES, GDC, and Digital Hollywood. As a business thought leader he has been quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Business Week. His creative initiatives including a book and educational video have been profiled in the Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, The Source, San Francisco Examiner, and America’s Radio Network.


He maintains a weekly substack, titled, So What.

Potential Speaking Topics


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