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Nicco Mele

Nicco Mele is a recognized expert at the intersection of media, technology, and politics. He is the co-founder and CEO of Warchest (formerly Data Management and Compliance), a software company building modern financial management and compliance infrastructure for Democratic political campaigns and nonprofit organizations. Warchest combines real-time budgeting, cash flow, and regulatory compliance into a single platform used by hundreds of campaigns nationwide. Nicco is also a partner at Copper Sky.

Previously, Nicco was a Managing Director and Venture Partner at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, where his board service included News Revenue Hub, City Bureau, Define American, and Recidiviz. In 2023, he advised the National Trust for Local News on its groundbreaking acquisition and conversion to nonprofit ownership of Masthead Maine, which includes the Portland Press Herald. He also co-founded The Lexington Observer, a nonprofit local news organization serving his hometown.

From 2016 to 2019, Nicco served as Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where he led research on sustainable business models for local journalism and the spread of misinformation on social networks. Earlier, Nicco was Senior Vice President and Deputy Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw digital revenue strategy across the California News Group’s portfolio.

At the beginning of his career, Nicco served as webmaster for Governor Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, where he helped pioneer the use of digital tools and online communities in political fundraising—work that reshaped modern campaign strategy. He later co-founded Echo & Co, which was acquired in 2014.

Nicco is the author of the international bestseller The End of Big: How The Digital Revolution Makes David the New Goliath (St. Martin’s Press), and the illustrated children’s book Dogs I Have Loved. He is a co-founder of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and co-produced the documentary Even Though the Whole World Is Burning about poet W.S. Merwin. Nicco highly recommends his wife’s podcast, The Anxious Achiever, and her books The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom.