Jonathan Nicols

Jonathan joined Pratt & Miller in 2001 as a Corvette race engineer for a number of years before helping to build and grow Pratt Miller’s mobility and defense business lines.  He was the Chief Engineer for most of Pratt’s robotics, autonomy, and other technology programs in addition to building from scratch the electrical and controls engineering departments.  In 2016 he joined Artemis Racing on their campaign for the 35th America’s Cup.  After the campaign he stayed in the maritime industry and helped found Artemis Technologies with a goal of decarbonizing the maritime industry with hydrofoiling technologies. Also in that period he designed the systems for the SailGP F50 yacht  and was a systems lead designer at INEOS Team UK.  He co-founded DavisNicols with the goal to serve clients with audacious dreams and the determination to realize them.

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Career Highlights: 

• Pratt & Miller Engineering

  • Race Engineer for Corvette Racing, including 3x 24 Hour of LeMans wins, and 4x ALMS championships

  • Started Pratt & Miller engineering services business and responsible for design of electronic and hydraulic systems

  • Chief engineer for Robotics and Autonomous vehicle technologies

• Lead Systems Engineer for Artemis Racing in the 35th America's Cup

• Lead Systems Engineer for INEOS Team UK in the 36th America’s Cup

• Co-Founder of DavisNicols LLC

Alex Davis

Alex started his career with hands-on engineering at the Skip Barber Racing school supporting over 120 race cars and an in-house manufacturing team, all while developing a next generation formula car from the ground up.  From there the desire to travel the world brought him to Australian motorsports circuits, and ultimately to New Zealand to support the design and build of America’s Cup racing yachts.  After winning the America’s Cup trophy with Oracle Racing in 2013, he went back to IndyCar for trackside vehicle simulation support while supporting the next generation IndyCar aerodynamic packages.  The allure for a 2nd win in the oldest trophy in sport brought him back to Artemis Racing in 2014, and has been supporting the design and development of the most high tech yachts since then.  With a passion for applying data driven engineering to all systems he is involved with, in addition to yachts  he was also able to support a manufacturing technology startup through the Series A funding round in industrial system design.  He Co-Founded DavisNicols with the goal to serve clients with audacious dreams and the determination to realize them.

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Career Highlights: 

• Skip Barber Racing - Lead engineer for 100+ race car fleet

• Oracle Team USA - winner of 34th America’s Cup

• Race Engineer for Chevy IndyCar program

• Systems Engineer for Artemis Racing in the 35th America's Cup

• Director of Engineering for manufacturing technology startup

• Systems Engineer for INEOS Team UK in the 36th America’s Cup

• Co-Founder of DavisNicols LLC