Nick Pyne has over 20 years of experience in the brewing industry as an engineering and operations leader. At First Key, Nick focuses on engineering services, operations, and project management for a wide range of brewery and beverage clients.

Nick has broad experience in leading brewery build projects, master planning, capital projects, process optimization, and product and packaging development. He also has experience in maintenance, efficiency rationalization, and cost saving programs. A few high-profile projects include: project leader for building the 450K hL Beavertown brewery and the 300K hL Camden Town brewery in the UK and project managing a capacity expansion for the 4 million hL Stella Artois brewery in Belgium. Nick spent the majority of his career working with AB InBev in Europe where he managed the capital plans for over 40 breweries including capacity expansions for brownfield and greenfield projects. He has also led due diligence projects for mergers and acquisitions.

Nick is a chartered chemical engineer and an associate of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling. Nick resides in the UK.