Nathaniel Fick

Nate Fick is Chief Strategy Officer for Equities and Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, focused on the global investment activities of Cerberus’ private equity, supply chain, and venture capital platforms. He joined Cerberus in 2025 after serving as Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State, where he led American diplomacy on technology issues including cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, AI and other emerging technologies. Mr. Fick was previously General Manager of Elastic Security, overseeing Elastic’s information security business globally. He joined Elastic in 2019 through its acquisition of Endgame, a venture-backed endpoint security software company where he was CEO. Mr. Fick also spent nearly a decade as an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He started his career as a Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’ “Best Military Books of the Decade.” Mr. Fick is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School. He has served on many boards, including as a Trustee of Dartmouth College and a Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.