Biography
Nick Palmisciano is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Filmmaker, Founding Board Member of international rescue non-profit Save Our Allies, and the CEO of the full service marketing agency Diesel Jack Media. Nick is a Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and received his MBA from Duke University. He received the prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year" award from the Entrepreneur Organization in 2015, and is a proud recipient of the U.S. Army Ranger Tab.
The best but hardest years of Nick's life were spent serving as an infantry officer in the United States Army. Upon leaving the military, Nick landed at Fortune 100 Company John Deere following a brief hiatus in business school. While at Deere, Nick held roles in business development and corporate acquisitions, government sales, and corporate brand licensing. While working the corporate job, Nick founded the first military apparel brand - Ranger Up. What started as a hobby quickly grew legs, and allowed Nick to leave his corporate job and ultimately kicked off a decade and a half of entrepreneurial endeavors focused around digital marketing, social media and the growing Veteran community. Ranger Up became a leader in the veteran space, with such strong support that it has consistently landed in Internet Retailer's Second 500 since 2012, selling over $100M in t-shirts since inception. In 2015 Nick was awarded the Entrepreneurial Organization's Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year.
In 2016, he co-wrote, produced, starred in, and served as managing partner for Range 15, the first veteran-made "Hollywood Film". Range 15 had the fourth largest crowdfund in Indiegogo Movie history and would open in over 650 theaters. It was the first independent film to rise to the ranks of #1 on Amazon and #2 on iTunes for all digital downloads in its first week. Nick later produced a documentary entitled "Not a War Story" about the experience of making that film that also spent a week as the top documentary on iTunes and Amazon. It was time to leave the apparel world and focus on media and marketing: Diesel Jack Media was born.
In 2021, when Afghanistan was falling to the Taliban, Nick was one of twelve men who volunteered to go to Kabul and evacuate American Citizens and our Afghan allies. The small group, who named themselves Task Force 6:8 after Isiah 6:8's "Here Am I; Send Me", worked with the multiple International Governments and the US State Department to rescue as many people from Hamid Karzai International Airport. In the ten days that followed, Task Force 6:8 evacuated 12,000 people, second only to the United States Government. Task Force 6:8 was formalized as a non-profit organization named Save Our Allies, where Nick now sits as a founding board member. In September of 2022, Nick and Diesel Jack Media released the documentary "Send Me".
In 2022, Nick wrote the book Scars and Stripes with his longtime friend and business partner, Tim Kennedy, and then marketed the work. Scars and Stripes became an instant New York Times Bestseller, and remained on the list for 3 months.
After three years of working on international crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ukraine, and Haiti, Nick returned to comedy in 2023 by writing, directing, and producing Office Joe, a television comedy series set to debut in the Fall of 2024.
