{"id":17378,"date":"2021-03-31T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:55:19","slug":"kristin-nimsger-brings-years-of-experience-running-tech-firms-to-new-advisory-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/31\/kristin-nimsger-brings-years-of-experience-running-tech-firms-to-new-advisory-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Nimsger brings years of experience running tech firms to new advisory role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Minnesota native thrives on competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Todd Nelson<\/p>\n

Successful tech CEO Kristin Nimsger \u201998 has gone from building and running software companies to advising them on a larger scale on growth strategy and operational transformation.<\/p>\n

Nimsger joined Vista Equity Partners in April as a senior adviser in the Austin, Texas-based firm\u2019s private equity division. She previously led two portfolio companies for Vista, which has $58 billion in capital commitments across its investment strategies.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota native thrives on competition, from competitive dance as a youngster to working as a product liability lawyer in Minneapolis to leading rapidly growing tech companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I loved about (legal) practice is that competitive component, the desire to advocate for your client and drive change and positive results,\u201d Nimsger said. \u201cThat\u2019s not horribly dissimilar to the charter of growing a business. It\u2019s creating positive change and evolution and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nimsger joined Twin Cities tech start-up Ontrack Data International in 2000 after a William Mitchell classmate told her how much fun he had working there. She became president during a decade-long run before leading Thomson Reuters\u2019 litigation practice software business for two years.<\/p>\n

Vista called in 2013, recruiting Nimsger to serve as CEO of MicroEdge, a philanthropic tech company based in Minneapolis and New York City. After MicroEdge was sold, Nimsger joined Vista portfolio company Social Solutions as CEO in 2016. She helped secure a $59 million pledge from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the firm, which supports nonprofits and government agencies with data science and information solutions.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis for Nimsger, who also led tech companies through 9\/11\u2019s aftermath and the 2008-09 financial meltdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is the opportunity to take those experiences and bring them forward across a broader portfolio of companies and help their management teams grapple with those hard challenges that I and my management teams have seen over the years,\u201d Nimsger said.<\/p>\n

Working at Vista, which partners with enterprise software company executives to advance and scale their portfolio companies, \u201cis not something I would have expected as I walked into Mitchell my first day,\u201d Nimsger said.<\/p>\n

Nimsger chose William Mitchell in part to be close to friends and family. Having worked full time since she was 16, including while earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in English at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Nimsger appreciated maintaining a full work and class schedule in law school.<\/p>\n

To this day, Nimsger said, her closest friends are her law school classmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was something unique about the culture and the sense of community,\u201d Nimsger said. \u201cPeople really helped each other. The relationships that were formed there, there are people that are still my go-to people. I loved my time at Mitchell. Those are experiences and knowledge that I draw on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was written by Todd Nelson, a freelance journalist in the Twin Cities, and appeared in Mitchell Hamline’s Winter 2020 Magazine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota native thrives on competition By Todd Nelson Successful tech CEO Kristin Nimsger \u201998 has gone from building and running software companies to advising them on a larger scale on growth strategy and operational transformation. Nimsger joined Vista Equity Partners in April as a senior adviser in the Austin, Texas-based firm\u2019s private equity division. She … <\/p>\n

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