Nina Gigele is an Austrian ski mountain guide, entrepreneur and keynote speaker. a former ski racer, she had a life-changing accident at 16 that ended her athletic career and set her on a different path: she became a certified ski mountain guide at 21 and has since guided in the Alps, Japan, Alaska, New Zealand, Chile, and Svalbard. today she runs boutiq.vision, a brand and market-entry consultancy that helps premium brands from Japan, Poland, and the US establish themselves in Europe, and boutiq.experiences, a licensed tour operator creating curated luxury ski trips worldwide.

in 2026, she co-founded aiiqo, launching the world’s first patented recovery textile for women, born from her own decade of rebuilding after injury. she holds an Executive MBA, is a Harvard Business School graduate, lectures at the university level on brand building, authored the coffee-table book “Inside the Arlberg“, and has worked with brands including Salomon, Mercedes-Benz, Dyson, Sonos, and Salewa. she reaches over 175,000 people across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn, where she documents her journey while creating magic moments.