James A. J. Nickolas
James (Jim) A. J. Nickolas is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Martin Marietta.
Before joining Martin Marietta, Jim held finance, accounting, tax and M&A leadership roles for more than fifteen years. He most recently led the Corporate Development group at Caterpillar Inc., and previously served as Group Chief Financial Officer of the Resources Industries segment and the Global Mining division of Caterpillar. Prior to that, he served as Group Chief Financial Officer of Caterpillar's Global Mining business unit, where he also managed the internal audit and treasury functions. Before joining Caterpillar in 2008, Jim was Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., where he worked on originating and executing debt and equity capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. Jim began his professional career as a Certified Public Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand where he was a senior tax associate.
Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and both an MBA in Finance and a JD degree from the University of Chicago.