About Nick

Nicholas Puddicombe is the Senior Associate Director of Operations and Experience at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) and oversees the strategy and physical resources offered through the Center’s studios, classrooms, makerspaces, and public gathering areas. Nick has his bachelors in Accounting from Northern Illinois University, and an MBA with a concentration in Theater Management from Illinois State University, and joined SCD in 2019 after spending a decade working in customer service and operations at performing arts venues.

Combining knowledge and experience from the arts with an education in business, Nick has created a career path in venue management and university administration that exemplifies how multidisciplinary collaboration can bring together different skill sets and shared knowledge to develop creative solutions to modern issues.