Nico Caprez

The athlete record of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) gives his year of birth as 1991, his nation as Switzerland (SUI), his club as Alpina St. Moritz and his FIS code as 511768.⁠[1]

The summary of the article that The Information published in October 2026 and the article that Fortune published on November 9, 2026 both give his age as 35.⁠[2][3][4]

The FIS result page for the National Championships men’s super-G held at Zinal, Switzerland, on March 29, 2010 lists him 42nd in 1:11.01, 2.20 seconds behind the winner, Cornel Zueger (1:08.81).⁠[5]

The result page of the FIS-level men’s giant slalom held at Visperterminen, Switzerland, on April 6, 2010 lists him under “Did not finish 2nd run”; the winner of that race was Silvan Zurbriggen.⁠[6]

The results page of the FIS record shows by default 50 rows of his dated between November 28, 2012 and April 10, 2013 (among them downhill training runs and entries marked as not started or not finished), in downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined; the season filter of the page lists 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013, its category filter lists FIS Junior World Ski Championships, European Cup, National Championships, FIS, National Junior Championships, National Junior Race and CIT, and the status field reads “Not active.”⁠[1][1]

At European Cup level he placed 50th in the downhill at Reiteralm, Austria, on November 28, 2012 and 60th in the super-G there the next day; he placed 55th and 70th in the two downhills at Wengen, Switzerland, on January 10 and 12, 2013; and the downhill at Hinterstoder, Austria, on January 16 is entered as DNS2 (did not start).⁠[1]

In FIS-level races he placed 2nd and 10th in the two super-Gs at Arosa on December 20, 2012, 4th in the super-G at Brigels on January 29, 2013, 4th in both the downhill at Stoos on March 8 and the downhill at St. Moritz on March 22, and 3rd and 5th in the two super-Gs at Otaki, Japan, on April 6; in the two CIT-category giant slaloms at S. Caterina Valfurva, Italy, on December 9 and 10, 2012 he placed 4th and 3rd.⁠[1]

The remaining FIS-level results of that season in the record are: 41st and 18th in the two super-Gs at Val Gardena, Italy, on December 3 and 4, 2012, with the super combined there on December 3 entered as DNF2 (did not finish); 17th and 24th in the two giant slaloms at Flims on December 13 and 14; 46th in the giant slalom at Laax on January 8, 2013; 56th in the downhill at Hinterstoder, Austria, on January 15; 13th and 24th in the two giant slaloms at St. Luc on January 21 and 22; DNS2 (did not start) in the giant slalom at Wangs/Pizol on February 5; 24th in the super-G at St. Moritz on March 21; 30th in the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on March 28; and DNS1 (did not start) in the slalom at Veysonnaz on April 7.⁠[1]

Among the results that the record labels National Championships, he placed 8th in the giant slalom at Malbun, Liechtenstein, on February 2, 2013, 31st in the super-G and 10th in the downhill at St. Moritz on March 21 and 22, 49th in the giant slalom at Davos on March 24, and 21st in the downhill and 31st in the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on March 27 and 28.⁠[1]

The latest-dated results on the page are from Zinal on April 10, 2013: 28th in the National Junior Championships super-G, 27th in the FIS-level super-G of the same day, and DNS2 (did not start) in the super combined.⁠[1]

Among the other results that the record labels National Junior Championships, the giant slalom at Laax on January 7, 2013 is entered as DNF2 (did not finish), and he placed 11th in the super combined at Brigels on January 29, 14th in the downhill at Stoos on March 7 and 30th in the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on March 27; in the CIT category he placed 8th in the giant slalom at Zinal on March 13, and the giant slalom there the next day is entered as DNF2.⁠[1]

The record also has seven downhill rows marked TRA (training): 56th at Wengen on January 9, 2013, 70th and 75th at Hinterstoder on January 14 and 15, 5th at Stoos on March 5, 32nd and 44th in the two runs at St. Moritz on March 19, and 48th at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on March 26.⁠[1]

Fortune describes him as a former alpine skier who represented Switzerland; The Kyunghyang Shinmun and the World Journal describe him as a former member of the Swiss national alpine skiing team; the article summary of The Information calls him “a former pro ski racer”; and the October 7, 2026 article in the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily calls him “a Swiss national” and writes that he competed as a member of the national alpine ski team.⁠[3][4][7][2][8]

On January 30, 2013 he won the FIS-level men’s super-G at Brigels, Switzerland, in 1:13.07; Amaury Genoud was second in 1:13.13, Gian Luca Barandun third in 1:13.15, Vincent Gaspoz fourth in 1:13.23 and Niels Hintermann fifth in 1:13.42.⁠[9][1]

Fortune states that he graduated with an MBA from London Business School in 2021 and met Madison Huang there; The Kyunghyang Shinmun and the World Journal describe the two as classmates in the school’s master’s program, and the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that the two are the same age. The speaker biography of the Milken Institute also states that he holds an MBA from the school.⁠[3][4][7][8][10]

Fortune states that he started at NVIDIA in February 2024 as a corporate development manager.⁠[3]

The speaker biography of the Milken Institute states that after joining NVIDIA he held leadership roles in Corporate Development, supporting strategic investments, platform growth and global ecosystem build-out.⁠[10]

The article summary of The Information states that Madison Huang helped recruit him to NVIDIA two and a half years before that article; the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that he joined NVIDIA through Madison Huang’s introduction.⁠[2][8]

Fortune’s article of November 9, 2026 states that about a year earlier he became the director of global AI infrastructure enablement for NVIDIA’s cloud partners.⁠[3]

The Kyunghyang Shinmun’s article of October 6, 2026 states that he was promoted to vice president in January of that year, less than two years after joining and skipping the senior director level; the World Journal’s compiled article of the same day and the next day’s article in the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily give the same account. Fortune writes that he rose to lead global AI infrastructure growth in less than three years.⁠[4][7][8][3]

The title printed on the Milken Institute’s page is “Vice President, Global AI Infrastructure Growth,” the one printed on the pages of Nazarbayev University and its institute ISSAI is “Vice President for Global AI Infrastructure Growth,” and the one printed on the English page of the Kazakh government site gov.kz is “Vice President for Global AI Infrastructure Development.”⁠[10][11][12][13]

The speaker biography of the Milken Institute states that he leads NVIDIA’s global strategy and execution to scale AI infrastructure across cloud providers, enterprises and strategic partners worldwide, and that he is responsible for driving ecosystem expansion, enabling large-scale AI platform deployment and advancing partnerships that accelerate the adoption of accelerated computing globally.⁠[10]

The Kyunghyang Shinmun states that he oversees data-center-related businesses, including the “neocloud” operations specialized for AI training and inference, and that he has pursued credit-guarantee and lending programs that use NVIDIA’s GPUs as collateral; the World Journal likewise writes that he is responsible for the data-center business and such cloud services, and the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that he oversees data center partnerships and led credit-guarantee and lending programs under which customers borrow against NVIDIA’s GPUs as collateral.⁠[4][7][8]

A Reuters article of November 10, 2026 describes him as overseeing NVIDIA’s ties with neoclouds and data-center operators as vice president of global AI infrastructure growth.⁠[14]

A Russian-language release published on the official website of the President of Kazakhstan on April 29, 2026 states that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met him and the two co-founders of Firebird AI, and that the parties discussed prospects for cooperation in the design, construction and operation of AI infrastructure.⁠[15]

The release states that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Kazakhstan intends to become a fully digital country within the next three years, called the launch of supercomputer clusters based on NVIDIA technology a serious step, and described the project to build “Долина ЦОДов” (“Data Center Valley”) in Ekibastuz; the guests gave an account of a similar project being carried out in Armenia, and after the meeting the parties agreed to study the possibilities for joint work.⁠[15]

The release gives his name as Николо Мартин Капреза and his title as NVIDIA’s vice president for global AI infrastructure development; the English page on the Kazakh government site gov.kz about this visit first prints his name as “Nicolo Caprese” and later as “Nico Caprez.”⁠[15][13]

An account that Nazarbayev University published on April 30, 2026 states that he visited the university with the co-founders of Firebird.AI, toured its research infrastructure, was shown plans that include the launch of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, spoke with students and the university’s leadership, and held discussions with Sayasat Nurbek, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Science and Higher Education.⁠[11][13]

An account published the same day by the university’s Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) states that this was an official visit by an NVIDIA delegation that he led; Huseyin Atakan Varol of ISSAI presented the institute’s research agenda, and the account adds that the university was the first academic institution in Central Asia to deploy NVIDIA DGX systems.⁠[12]

At the university he said: “Our company would like to not only do research, but productize it, it’s really important for us.” He added that he was sure there was a partnership there that the two sides could explore.⁠[11]

On hiring he said: “NVIDIA has 45,000 employees today, and we’re growing every day.” He also said: “We’ve seen great students here, so we’d love to give them the opportunity to join us as well.”⁠[11]

The university’s account states that he welcomed its initiative to join the NVIDIA DLI University Ambassador Program; the two sides also discussed the possible opening of an NVIDIA office within the university’s planned research park, and a future data center.⁠[11]

The last stop of the visit was the NU Onergy Creative Hub, where he addressed the finalists of the DeepTech Bäige startup competition; the final cohort consisted of 11 deep tech student projects.⁠[11][12]

The Milken Institute’s conference pages list him as a speaker in the Global Conference 2026 session “The Productivity Shock: Is AI Rewriting the Global Growth Model?,” scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time.⁠[16][10]

The page names David Steinberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Zeta Global, as moderator; the other speakers listed are Lara Abrash, Chair of Deloitte, Vlad Barbalat of Liberty Mutual Group, Marcelo Claure of Brightstar Capital Partners, Ali Dibadj, CEO of Janus Henderson InvestorsJanus HendersonJanus Henderson is a global active asset manager whose predecessors were the British Henderson Group and the American Janus Capital Group; the company was formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker JHG) and is now a private company.Open the full entry, and Rob Heyvaert of Motive Partners, with opening remarks by Shikha Jain of the Milken Institute.⁠[16]

The page describes the session as follows: after more than a decade of sluggish productivity growth across advanced economies, AI is seen as a potential inflection point for global output, capital formation and long-term economic expansion; the participants are to examine whether AI will deliver sustained productivity gains or simply reallocate value within existing systems, and whether it is a structural growth catalyst capable of reshaping GDP trajectories, inflation dynamics, the balance between labor and capital, and sovereign competitiveness, or whether expectations are outrunning measurable economic impact.⁠[16]

Fortune states that in August 2026 he was part of the deal-making efforts to raise $500 billion with six major asset managers, among them ApolloApolloApollo (Apollo Global Management, Inc.) is an asset management and retirement services group founded in 1990 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker APO. Its investment business spans credit, equity, and real assets; after its 2022 merger with Athene, asset management and retirement services were brought under the same listed parent company. At the end of June 2026, the group reported assets under management of about $1.047 trillion.Open the full entry Global Management and Blackstone, to finance NVIDIA chips for data centers; the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that he drew up a $500 billion AI infrastructure financing plan together with large private equity firms including Blackstone and Brookfield.⁠[3][8]

The article adds that he is said to have assisted NVIDIA’s efforts to take minority stakes in two data center developers as part of its AI infrastructure buildout.⁠[3]

Fortune states that he and Madison Huang married in September 2026; the article summary of The Information states that Madison Huang celebrated her wedding in HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is a U.S. state consisting of a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean; its capital is Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu. Hawaii was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, as the 50th state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 1,455,271.Open the full entry a little over a week before that article appeared. The Kyunghyang Shinmun gives October 5 (local time) as the date of The Information’s article; the October 7 article in the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that the two held their wedding in Hawaii late in the previous month.⁠[3][2][4][8]

The Liberty Times’ article of October 3, 2026 states that Lee Jae-yong, chairman of Samsung Electronics, said in a speech at The Korea Society’s dinner in New York on the evening of September 28, U.S. Eastern time, that Madison Huang had married two days earlier; Jensen Huang received the 2026 Van Fleet Award at that dinner. The article states that the news came from several South Korean outlets’ accounts of the speech and that, as of its publication, Jensen Huang and NVIDIA had made no public announcement of the marriage; the World Journal’s compiled article of October 6 likewise states that Jensen Huang and NVIDIA had issued no official statement.⁠[17][7][18]

Korea JoongAng Daily’s account of the dinner states that it was The Korea Society’s annual gala, held on Monday, September 28, 2026, and that Madison Huang attended alongside her father.⁠[18]

The article in the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily states that partners say he is always reachable and responds quickly in any time zone; that he kept working on September 24 and 25, during NVIDIA’s quarterly vacation period and his own wedding; and that he returned to work on the 28th without taking time off and attended an NVIDIA investor dinner in New York the following evening.⁠[8]

The Information published an article by Phoebe Liu headed “How Jensen Huang’s Son-in-Law Became One of His Most Trusted Executives.” The Kyunghyang Shinmun wrote the next day that the article describes him as taking charge of NVIDIA’s core businesses and expanding his standing within the company.⁠[2][4][7]

The Kyunghyang Shinmun’s article states that Kerry Littlepage, CEO of the AI server exchange company OneChronos, said he has an exceptional ability to pinpoint the essence of complex problems, and that Sikandar Rashid, head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield Asset Management, said he can ease tense conversations with a well-timed joke; the World Journal’s compiled article prints the two names the same way. The About page of OneChronos’s website spells the name of the company’s co-founder Kelly Littlepage; the leadership page of Brookfield’s website spells the executive’s name Sikander Rashid and gives his titles as Global Head of AI Infrastructure and Head of Europe.⁠[4][7][19][20]

The article in the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily states that Sikander Rashid said Jensen Huang introduced him at their first meeting the previous year (2025) and said to talk to him whenever anything needed handling; the article also writes that the OneChronos CEO called him NVIDIA’s star analyst.⁠[8]

The article states that he long kept a low profile, avoiding media interviews and other outside activities, and has recently been attending conferences and becoming more active on LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry; his LinkedIn posts say that AI has become essential infrastructure and that NVIDIA’s chips are assets that can be financed.⁠[4][7][8]

On November 9, 2026 Fortune published an article by Sasha Rogelberg which writes that he “could be among the next in line to lead the AI juggernaut.”⁠[3]

The article states that Jensen Huang and NVIDIA have not publicly shared a succession plan and that Jensen Huang has not said who will lead the company in its next era.⁠[3]

The article relays a remark published by The Information: a cloud executive who had met with him called him “Jensen’s consigliere.” The executive is not named.⁠[3]

The article also writes that Vladimir Troy, NVIDIA’s vice president of AI infrastructure, who works alongside him, said: “Nico is very important.”⁠[3]

As of November 2026, his LinkedIn profile gives his location as the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry. The NVIDIA experience it lists, marked full-time and placed in Santa Clara, CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry, consists of three roles: Corporate Development Manager from February 2024 to November 2025; Director Global AI Infrastructure Enablement for NVIDIA Cloud Partners from October 2025 to January 2026; and VP Global AI Infrastructure Growth from January 2026 to the present.⁠[21]

The earlier experience it lists, in chronological order: Professional Ski Racer with Swiss-Ski from 2010 to 2013; an internship at PSquared Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2014; Investment Banking Summer Analyst at NomuraNomuraNomura is a Tokyo-based financial services group whose parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. Originating in Nomura Securities, established in 1925, it adopted a holding company structure in 2001. Its Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale and Banking divisions provide securities trading, financing, investment and trust services.Open the full entry in the London area, United Kingdom, from June to August 2015, an internship in the TMT Team of the Investment Banking Division; Associate at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Zurich, Switzerland, full-time, from August 2016 to August 2019; Business Advisor at Voliro Airborne Robotics in Zurich, Switzerland, part-time, from 2018 to 2019; Analyst at Moonfire Ventures, an internship, from June 2020 to May 2021; and Investment Analyst at PSQUARED ASSET MANAGEMENT AG in Zurich, Switzerland, full-time, from August 2021 to February 2024.⁠[21]

Under the Swiss-Ski entry he makes three statements of his own: that he was ranked among the top 100 athletes worldwide in both downhill and super-G; that he won the National Junior Championships in downhill in 2010; and that he finished sixth in super-G at the Junior World Ski Championships in 2010.⁠[21]

Its education section lists four entries, none with years: a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at London Business School; an MBA exchange semester at CEIBS; a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich; and a bachelor’s-level exchange semester at Copenhagen Business School.⁠[21]

The Milken Institute’s speaker page notes that speakers provide their own biographies and headshots and that these are not independently verified by the institute; the biography on that page states that he holds a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Zurich.⁠[10]

The biography states that he began his career at BCG, advising multinational corporations and government institutions on strategy, large-scale transformation and growth initiatives; Fortune writes that he started out as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group; and the English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that he worked as a management consultant in Boston Consulting Group’s Zurich office.⁠[10][3][8]

The biography states that before NVIDIA he was an Investment Analyst focusing on technology-driven opportunities across public and private markets; it does not name the employer. The English edition of Seoul Economic Daily writes that after his master’s studies at London Business School he worked as a financial analyst at an asset management firm, which it likewise does not name.⁠[10][8]

Fortune describes him as the son-in-law of Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s chief executive. The article states that Jensen Huang has two children, Madison Huang and Spencer HuangSpencer HuangSpencer Huang is director of product for robotics at NVIDIA, where he leads product work on the company’s robotics software, and is the son of Jensen Huang; before joining NVIDIA he co-founded the cocktail bar R&D Cocktail Lab in Taipei.Open the full entry, both of whom hold roles at NVIDIA: Madison Huang as senior director of physical AI and robotics product marketing, and Spencer Huang as director of robotics product management.⁠[3]

Boston Consulting Group: Official website: https://www.bcg.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[22]

NVIDIA: Official website: https://www.nvidia.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[23]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicocaprez/ (opens in a new window).⁠[21]