Nick Anastasiades is Co-Founder and CEO of Benji, a Chicago and New York-based universal API platform that is redefining loyalty partnership infrastructure for enterprise brands across travel, retail, hospitality, and fintech.

Nick holds an MBA and Masters in Design Innovation from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BS from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, with early career experience at Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft.

A Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneur and recipient of the Chicago Innovation Award, Nick brings over 15 years of experience building and scaling startups from seed to exit alongside co-founders Jon Elron and Arik Gaisler.

Nick previously co-founded and served as CEO of 2ndKitchen, a B2B virtual kitchen platform that raised $4.3M and was acquired by REEF Technology in 2021, where he went on to serve as VP of Growth for Hospitality. He also served as Chief Growth Officer at Nyla, a headless ecommerce platform that drove over $150M in GMV.

Benji has raised $6.25M in seed funding and its growing network, including JetBlue's loyalty program, represents more than 50 million active members combined, with the platform cutting integration timelines from over a year down to days.