1. Nathaniel C Fick was born on June 23,1977 and is an American diplomat, technology executive, author, and former United States Marine Corps officer.
23 Facts About Nathaniel Fick
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Nathaniel Fick was the CEO of cybersecurity software company Endgame, Inc.
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Nathaniel Fick was an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Nathaniel Fick was portrayed by actor Stark Sands in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill.
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Nathaniel Fick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1977, and attended Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland.
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Nathaniel Fick later graduated with degrees in classics and government in 1999.
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In 1998, after his junior year at Dartmouth, Nathaniel Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduating college on June 12,1999.
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Nathaniel Fick was trained as an infantry officer and was eventually assigned as a platoon commander to 1st Battalion 1st Marines.
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Nathaniel Fick then led his platoon into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom to support the War on Terror.
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Nathaniel Fick subsequently led Second Platoon of Bravo Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Nathaniel Fick left the US Marine Corps as a captain in December 2003, and used the GI Bill to attend Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nathaniel Fick came to public notice for his writing on military life and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Nathaniel Fick's memoir One Bullet Away was a New York Times bestseller, one of The Washington Post's "Best Books of the Year," and won the Colby Award in 2006.
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Nathaniel Fick became the chief operating officer at the Center for a New American Security in 2008 and later was appointed CEO in June 2009.
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Nathaniel Fick was elected to Dartmouth College's board of trustees in April 2012 and served for eight years.
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Nathaniel Fick served as the CEO of cybersecurity software company Endgame from 2012 through its acquisition by search company Elastic in 2019, when he became the general manager of Elastic's information security business globally.
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Nathaniel Fick testified before the United States Senate on Iraq and spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 28,2008, the night Barack Obama accepted the presidential nomination.
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On June 3,2022, Nathaniel Fick was nominated as the US State Department's first Ambassador-at-Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, leading US diplomacy on cybersecurity, digital, and emerging technology issues.
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On February 4,2023, Nathaniel Fick announced that his personal Twitter account had been hacked.
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Nathaniel Fick called the incident one of the "perils of the job".
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In November 2023, Ambassador Nathaniel Fick testified before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US diplomacy in support of the responsible governance of artificial intelligence.
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Nathaniel Fick discussed the strategy publicly at a forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations later that week.
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Generation Kill was adapted by David Simon and Ed Burns into a miniseries of the same name for HBO, in which Nathaniel Fick is portrayed by Stark Sands.