Nicki Zvik

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ABOUT NICKI ZVIK

Nicki Zvik is a renewable energy entrepreneur, real estateinvestor based in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Zvik was born in Israel and first developed and honed hisleadership skills in the Israeli army where he volunteered to be inthe physically and mentally demanding specialist Airborne divisionknown as the Paratrooper Brigade. After serving for three yearsfrom 19••••94 and reaching the rank of First Sergeant, heemigrated to the United States. His immigrant story, as is typical of many immigrants, began withhumble beginnings. His first job in the U.S. was as a furnituremover in NYC followed by store clerk at a tuxedo store in Dallas.His leadership and natural managerial skills allowed him to move upquickly in both jobs but he soon realized that he was notsatisfied. Zvik said, “I was really grateful to learn so much about businessat these two jobs but it became obvious to me that if Iwanted to create something special, working for somebody wouldalways limit my potential. I felt that I could do more and make abigger impact by starting something myself, so I took a risk byleaving a comfortable job and picked up and moved to Los Angeleswhere I had friends that had started building companies in the realestate industry.” Upon arriving in Los Angeles in 2001, he started a successful homeimprovement company but like many other companies of the time, itwas greatly affected by the recession that began in 2008. Zvik wasforced to venture into other areas of real estate, first withinvesting in foreclosed homes and then in the solar industry. “Atthe time, nobody was doing any remodeling or building. Everybodywas hurting but I kept hearing about residential solar and thesehuge rebates that utilities and cities were offering so I decidedto explore it. Also, there were tons of good deals out there forreal estate investment if you had a little bit of money saved up. Iguess I just had good timing,” said Zvik.