Nick Sarnicola Email & Phone Number

Nick Sarnicola is most well-known for founding the health and wellness direct sales company ViSalus in 2005. On its 15 year journey, Vi pioneered the category of “Challenge Marketing” while doing nearly 2 billion in sales from 2010-2016 alone. It is said that every weight loss and fitness challenge seen today stemmed the original Body By VI 90 Challenge launched on Challenge.com by Sarnciola in 2009. Body By Vi produced 3.5 million health transformations in 20 countries on its run to creating more than 70 millionaires. Nick simultaneously owned and managed Vi-Events, producing anywhere from 50-100 sales training and leadership events per year for the Vi sales promoters including a 15,000 person conference at the American Airlines Arena in Miami.Starting as the Chief Sales Officer in 2005, Nick helped lead the company through a four-year buyout by a publicly traded holding company valued at nearly $700 million. He and is partners then bought the company back several years later positioning Nick as the lead investor, shareholder, and CEO. Recently, Vi sold to Pruvit International and Lacore Nutraceuticals concluding their 15 year run. Other notable ventures would be a partnership in the tech startup venture fund, Hashtag One. This $10 million fund has investments in as many as a dozen companies, highlighted by HEAL and Cura Partners. In 2019 Cura Partners brought Nick in as SVP of Sales. Cura was subsequently acquired by the largest Cannabis company in the world, Curaleaf, while simultaneously spinning out its CBD brand Sentia. Leaning on his leadership experience, Nick was internally promoted to help navigate through what is now the largest cannabis acquisition in history.With a passion in creating life experiences, Nick also cofounded LIV Global, a platform dedicated to turning your “Bucket List into a LIV’ed list.” LIV Global ran 50 global experiences ranging from 100-700 people all over the world.Recently, Nick launched Catalyst Group, a national sales accelerator focused on the renewable energy sector via residential and commercial solar. He still passionately supports international team building for Pruvit Global and NextGen Entrepreneurs, an NPO he founded in 2012.

Listed skills include Public Speaking, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Social Media Marketing, and 15 others.