After graduating as a Medical Doctor and finishing his MBA, the  first six years of his career Nico worked for Sandoz, a multinational pharmaceutical company. Upon leaving Sandoz, Nico began his entrepreneurial career by becoming one of the founding partners of Plexus Medical Group (largest healthcare consulting company in the Netherlands) and founder, board member and shareholder of Zorgdomein BV, Performation BV and Plexus Interim BV, respectively. In 2012, he joined the board of Bergman Clinics as COO, later as CMO and finally as CFO. In 2016 till 2018 Nico worked as CEO at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital. In the last ten years, Nico has successfully capitalized on his endeavors and reinvested in multiple healthcare startups. In 2018, Nico founded a new company X-Infex B.V. that develops biocidal polymers.