About Us
Highwick Associates is a boutique Online Reputation consulting service, founded in 2008 by 27 year IT, business and security veteran Nicholas (Nick) Braak, formerly the President of New York City IT VAR Tricon Systems Ltd.
Highwick Associates operates as a virtual consultancy and serves clients worldwide from a New York City base of operations.
Assignments are undertaken as discreet direct client engagements, or in partnership with in-house and outside professionals in public relations, crisis communications, branding, SEO, IT, legal, private investigation, social media and digital strategy, intellectual property, information security, forensic accounting, law enforcement, web development and human resources.
Nick has been involved in multiple startups and business ventures in Info Security, Wealth Management, Virtual Work, E-Commerce, and Social Media.
In 2005 he had the honor of being selected to perform complex electronic evidence collection for the City of New York Law Department, the subject being the events and aftermath of the World Trade Center attack. A life-changing experience.
In his own words:
“I’m a passionate defender of business and personal online reputations. I love working at the risk/reward intersection of the social online world, cyberlaw, privacy, technology and reputation”
“I’m fortunate to be endowed with a strong sense of curiosity, the ability to read and glean information quickly, to see patterns and to connect the dots.”
“For many years I’ve been entrusted with sensitive and important information in multiple ways and situations. Over the last five years I’ve worked on dozens of cases in the areas of Online Reputation, Internet Fraud, Website Intrusions, Online Defamation, Cyber-Stalking, Privacy, Cybercrime, Impersonation and more, for high and low profile clients on four continents.”
Nick can be found on multiple networks, including LinkedIn, Quora, BusinessWeek, Twitter and UK based Ecademy.
Nick’s Google Profile is here.
Nick’s LinkedIn profile, with a complete bio and testimonials can be viewed below.
Additional background information and references are provided to clients upon request.
