Nvidia's leadership increasingly shaped by Jensen Huang's family

Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, is increasingly being shaped by family ties, with CEO Jensen Huang's children and their partners playing key roles. His daughter Madison Huang married Nico Caprez, a former Swiss professional ski racer, in Hawaii last month. Caprez, now 35, has rapidly risen through Nvidia's ranks, overseeing multibillion-dollar relationships with young cloud providers and data center firms.

Caprez's journey from ski racing to corporate leadership is notable. He retired from professional skiing in 2013, then worked at Boston Consulting Group before studying at London Business School, where he met Madison. Both graduated in 2021, and Madison joined Nvidia soon after. Caprez followed in early 2024 as a corporate development manager, recruited by Madison. By January, he was promoted to vice president of global AI infrastructure growth, bypassing the senior director role entirely.

Caprez's role involves securing deals for Nvidia's chips with neocloud firms. He helps them with sales leads, land acquisition, power solutions, and financing tools. In June, he facilitated a deal for Australian neocloud Firmus to purchase 170,000 Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips worth over $15 billion. In August, he helped raise a $500 billion financing plan with Blackstone and other Wall Street firms. Huang's trust in Caprez is evident, with one executive calling him "Jensen's consigliere."

Madison Huang now leads marketing for Nvidia's robotics division, focusing on physical AI, world models, and open-source projects. She frequently accompanies her father to meetings with supply chain partners. However, not all initiatives succeed. Caprez's AI Compute Partnership proposal faced rejection from firms like Nebius, which were wary of relying too heavily on Nvidia and sacrificing margins.