Nectarios "Nick" Kouvalis (born 1975) is a Canadian political consultant and strategist. He is a principal strategist of Campaign Research, a firm which he co-founded in 2008 with Richard Ciano (a former executive of the Conservative Party of Canada and Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario). Kouvalis has worked for clients at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of government.Kouvalis managed Rob Ford's successful campaign to win the 2010 Toronto mayoral election. He is often credited with the success of the campaign, referred to as "the most improbable mayoral win in Canadian history." Wikipedia