R. Nelson Nash grew up in Athens, GA, and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1952. He served in the U.S. Air Force in California.

In 1963, he and his wife, Mary, moved to Birmingham and made a career change entering into the life insurance business. During his more than 35 years as a Life Insurance Agent, Nelson worked with The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. and with Guardian. He learned the system inside and out and discovered a strategy (that some of the wealthiest families in America had been leveraging for over 100 years!). Nelson was inducted as a Hall of Fame Member by Equitable, a Chartered Life Underwriter, and Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table for his contributions to the industry.

In 2000 he wrote the book, Becoming Your Own Banker, which would go on to have an impact on hundreds of thousands of people by teaching them how to create their own banking systems using dividend-paying whole life insurance. His book evolved into the Infinite Banking Concept^TM, and Nelson traveled all over the U.S. and Canada teaching on the topic. He was a voracious reader, and he especially enjoyed studying Austrian economics and history. He is also the author of Building Your Warehouse of Wealth and co-author of The Case for IBC.

You can learn more about Nash at https://infinitebanking.org/