Nick So

Nick So, CEO, has channelled his lifelong entrepreneurial experience and his athletic enthusiasm to create a world-class product design, engineering, and manufacturing firm with Proception Limited. Accomplishing this goal has been possible due to his skills of assembling a highly experienced team of staff and manufacturing partners, first-hand knowledge of western markets, and years of engineering/manufacturing experience. Graduating from Carleton University, Ottawa with a two degrees (Economics and Marketing), Nick moved to Wisconsin to build the first offshore office for his family’s Asia based business, the number one supplier for Pleasant Company (American Girl). After gaining business experience in America he moved back to Hong Kong to serve as Global Sourcing Manager and created a large and diverse selection of products for his family’s factory which they previously were not manufacturing. His networking skills and product knowledge helped catapult the sourcing department into six figure sales in the first year, and seven figures the next. Nine years in this position gave Nick the confidence to branch out and Source 2 Market, LLC was born in 2003 with two other friends as partners. Thanks to hard work and dedication the small startup grew into a powerhouse of engineering and sourcing for many North American and European partners. Nick helped build Source 2 Market due to thousands of hours of invaluable time visiting and learning from hundreds of factories specializing in plastic injection, blow molding, rubber vulcanization, metal forming, software programming, and many other modern processes.  Nick sold the company in 2016 and quickly built his new vision: Proception Limited. In just two years Proception grew into an eight-figure sales company. As a dedicated athlete Nick is never far from the gym, his bicycle and a good protein shake help both his creative and managerial thought process.  During his time in Hong Kong he focused on body building and won the Mr. Hong Kong Championship in 1998. His love of outdoor sports has led to exhilarating cycling trips and mountain climbing experiences all over the world. Even with all his great success in business and athletics, Nick’s loving wife Julie and two beautiful daughters, Tiffany and Ellie, are still number one in his life. They reside in Ningbo, China.