Name: Bryan Nicholas
Title: Vice President, Engineering & Development
Company: Westmass Area Dev. Corp./Westover Metro Dev. Corp.
Location: 255 Padgette St., Chicopee, MA
Place of birth and year: Gardner, MA, 1948
Family: Wife, Cher; sons, Bryan and Eric
College: BA UMass Amherst; MBA UMass Amherst
First job outside of real estate: Center for Economic Development, UMass
First job in real estate or allied field: President, pre-engineered home builder
What your firm does now and its plans for the future: Develop business parks. I'll keep doing it as long as I'm able.
Hobbies: Cooking, gardening, hiking
Favorite book(s): The 21 novels of Patrick O'Brien, starting with "Master and Commander"
Favorite movie: "The Usual Suspects"
Keys to Success: There is no area of human endeavor that cannot be improved with some combination of ingenuity, hard work and a sense of humor.
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Warren Buffet
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Teacher