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Nelson Nigel (born 21 November 1978) is a Guyanese businessman. His family emigrated from Guyana when he was 5 years old. They settled in Queens, New York City. He founded Kidmoto Technologies, which provides safe children airport transportation in New York City.

Nelson Nigel started as an entrepreneur at a young age. He started making speaker boxes, sold insurance, sold cars, sold Christmas lights, was a male model, reggae singer, real estate developer, NYC yellow cab driver, Uber driver and in 2016 he opened Kidmoto Technologies.

Early Life

Nelson Nigel was born in Guyana, but has spent most of his life as a resident of Corona Queens, New York.

Career

Business ventures

In 2005, Nigel opened Head Contracting LLC, where he was Vice President of Finance. By 2006, Nigel established himself as a real estate developer when he founded his company Nelson Nigel New York. In 2008, his performance there earned him the distinction of being chosen as the Small Business Administration’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year”. In 2009, he used his extensive knowledge of negotiating government contracts to found Headexposed, a multi-media Internet technology firm specializing in procurement content. The company offers a series of instructional e-books on procurement, the selling of goods and services to government agencies, construction companies, and large corporations, which Nigel himself authored. In May 2010, Nigel appeared in the Wall Street Journal; he has been featured as well on Fox News.

In 2014, Nelson Nigel went on to start Head Technologies specializing in government to constituent and government to employee mobile applications. In 2016 Nelson founded Kidmoto Technologies, a mobile app connecting passengers seeking car seats to drivers providing, harnessing and installing car seats for airport transportation.

Television

Nigel has also been featured on NY1 news on September 14, 2016 and November 14, 2016.

Honors and Awards

In 2008, Nelson Nigel was awarded the SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the US Small Business Administration.

Influences

Nelson Nigel has stated in a number of interviews that he has been much influenced by Jeff Bezos, Aliko Dangote, Ratan Tata, Michael Bloomberg and Peter Fox.