Nick Gromicko is an activist for the inspection industry and a speaker at dozens of inspection events every year.  After three years of military training in the 1980's Nick accepted a position as a Research Analyst for the University of Pittsburgh's Nuclear Physics Department.  Four years later he left to form several multi-inspector firms, eight environmental companies, and two laboratories.  As a REALTOR with RE/MAX, Nick was one of the country's first agents to work solely with buyers.  In 1990 he founded InterNACHI which grew into the world's largest inspection trade association, host to nearly 500 events a year, with a 205,000-page, 100 million+ hit per year main site, over 4,000 websites, and a 360,000-post, free speech message board.  In the mid 1990's he sat on the Board of one of the largest public sewer authorities in the country and was President of Northtowne Custom Homes.  Nick owns a New York ad agency, a Wyoming mining company and an off-road accessory manufacturing company.  He is author of two books and dozens of inspection-related articles.  He helped start a school for children, a free health clinic, a food bank, and the Master Inspector Certification Board which administers the inspection industry's Certified Master Inspector (CMI) professional designation.  He is also founded the International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants (IAC2) and is host of NACHI.TV.  Nick lives near the continental divide in Nederland, Colorado, population 1,394 at what he calls "the top of the world."