Nik Halik

Nik Halik (born May 15 as Nikos Halikopoulos), is an Australian financial entrepreneur and Russian trained and aspired cosmonaut.

Halik was raised in Melbourne, Australia and is of Greek descent. He is the youngest son of Greek immigrants Konstantinos and Dionisia Halikopoulos. He took an interest in music at an early age, inspired by his father who was an accomplished musician. As a young teenager he relocated to the U.S. on his own and spent time studying and performing at G.I.T Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. The Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school. Nik performed in Rock Bands and toured as a lead guitarist with various acts throughout the 1990s. He left the music industry in 1998 to pursue business interests and a life long quest for extreme adventures.

Halik is the founder and C.E.O. of companies such as Financial Freedom Institute, Lifestyle Revolution, Money Masters Global, 5 Day Weekend, The Thrillionaires and co-founder of iCoach Global. Having founded the Thrillionaire movement he is a 5 Day Weekend lifestyle strategist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, aspiring civilian cosmonaut, high-adrenaline adventurer and best-selling author. He became a multi-millionaire and amassed great wealth through savvy investments in property, business and the financial markets. His group of companies have impacted over 1 million lives to date in over 51 countries. Apart from his other businesses, Nik Halik is also a stakeholder in a number of businesses around the world, including Vertex Media, a Hollywood Television and Film production company. He is currently an active Angel investor and strategic adviser to several tech start-ups in the U.S. Halik has private homes in the Greek Islands, Morocco, the United States and Australia.

Halik is a Russian Trained Civilian Cosmonaut

Following in the footsteps of entrepreneur-adventurers Steve Fossett and Richard Branson, Halik has dived to the wreck of RMS Titanic, been active as a mountaineer on some of the world's highest peaks, conducted a HALO Skydive jump above Mt Everest in Nepal and participated in a civilian edge of space flight in a modified Soviet-built Mig25 jet. Halik studied at the Yuri Gargarin Cosmonaut Training Academy in Moscow, Russia. After a number of years, he completed his qualifications and certifications. He was the back-up cosmonaut for the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 flight to the International Space Station in 2008.

Written by Halik and published in 2008, The Thrillionaire (ISBN 978-1-920997-10-6) is both a biography and wealth strategist's hand book. Having worked with wealth strategists and motivational speakers around the globe, Halik combines his strategies for financial freedom with stories from his life.

Halik's spaceflight training is also covered in the book "Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream," 2009, by Colin Burgess.